#it’s just two different fucking things. pointing at 17th century Europe and then 6th century China and being like ‘ah! one of these is
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“Victorians were way more misogynistic than medieval people” have you considered misogyny as like an expression of power dynamics within the context of a period and not just a simple sliding scale of Less or More or is nuance like. entirely dead
#I’m being real bitchy about a fairly innocuous post and I apologise for that but like#firstly I am once again pleading with people to stop saying medieval and instead say what you Actually Mean (in this case: Franks)#secondly ask your average 12th century Frankish guy to explain Women As A Concept and I’m sure you would get a very. fun response#I am really struggling to explain this in a meaningful way but like it’s the conflation of misogyny with women’s liberty to do stuff#which I really feel are separate and completely contextual#it’s just two different fucking things. pointing at 17th century Europe and then 6th century China and being like ‘ah! one of these is#more bureaucratic than the other!’ okay but they are not the same thing is the thing#anyway their point about class > gender is true but everything else is just. there’s something about the phrasing that is under my skin#I know the urge to do a John Boswell. i understand it. it’s good and kind and empathetic#(aka to point at ‘medievals’ and go ‘more like me than you’d think! and they wouldn’t have hated me!’)#doesn’t make it good fucking history though does it
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