Gender equality shouldn’t mean gynocentrism. Gender equality is for men, too. Ignoring injustices against men is sexist.
Cyrus the Great captured the fabulously wealthy King Croesus of Lydia and blessed him with gender equality with his wife. … Read the post captive King Croesus finally achieved gender equality with wife
In Gesta Danorum, the Danish woman-warrior Alvild and her love for Alf shows limitations of the Viking woman-warrior controversy. … Read the post Danish woman-warrior Alvild fought like a man and loved a man
In his love odes, Horace complacently accepts gendered war, adultery punishment, and sexual opportunity. Lydia exemplifies Roman gender privilege. … Read the post Horace gender-complacent in conviviality with men
In his Dialogus miraculorum, Caesarius of Heisterbach recognized gender equality in sexual harassment. That’s superior medieval understanding. … Read the post gender equality & sexual harassment in medieval understanding
Following Virgil, medieval authors associated bees with chastity & the Virgin Mary. Male workers bees doing sex work thus came to be disparaged as drones. … Read the post literary history made male worker bees into drones