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  • Abelard castrated
  • Byzantine wife saves husband
  • Amphitryon & Geta duped
  • Chastelaine de Vergi tragedy
  • Aristotle’s advice to Alexander
  • Empress Theodora: woman leader
  • Tristan & Isuet
  • Xanthippe & Socrates
  • New Modern Sexism Scale

sexism

Gender equality shouldn’t mean gynocentrism. Gender equality is for men, too. Ignoring injustices against men is sexist.

Danish woman-warrior Alvild fought like a man and loved a man

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

Horace gender-complacent in conviviality with men

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

gender equality & sexual harassment in medieval understanding

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

literary history made male worker bees into drones

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

the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

Academic literary studies is very hostile to non-feminist approaches and rife with anti-meninism. Beware! Look for imagination & creativity elsewhere. … Read the post the unbelievable anti-meninism of today’s elite literary scholars

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