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swallowtail-ageha · 2 months ago

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*video by a self proclaimed historian archeology with mary on a cross dramatic beat in the background fake crying hand on mouth in instagram reels* here is a funeral epigraphy of this young roman lady who got murdered by her husband! People especially men were such beasts right then and haven't changed much! *shows epigraphy where parents of murdered girl both father and mother denounce their daughter's murder as something abominable and either way Very Much Not Uncaring of the girls fate*

#i also just think its dangerous to like. chalk up an entire population/culture as having components that act like a monolith #and every one is a misogynistic violent man who uses women as a bargaining chip and no one cared about their #wife/sister/mother/daughter ever #and well. i know the long dead thousand year long spanning violent state the roman empire doesnt need my defense lol #i just think. generalizing a demographic is bad. and like. how people are just comfortable doing it because #they have decided that the entity they are talking about is 'bad' and thus can say all the shit they want about them #and like yeah. roman misogyny was really bad and disgusting i studied roman literature for fucks sakw #i know what many men thought of women back then #but again. there were other men who cared about their female relatives. cicero and tullia. fulvia and clodius. pliny and calpurnia.#ovid and fabia.#literally the longest latin epigraphy we have is a man mourning his wife and wishing he died in her place and listing how wonderful she was #and when pointed out the people in the comments (whose venn diagram is a circle with bitches who exploit little girls #getting raped and/or murdered to spam I CHOOSE THE BEAR which again. if some bitch did that with me #they'd probably find her bloated naked body in the tevere two weeks later like holy shit its so disrespectful)#is a circle)#say 'buuh oooh well some guys loved their wives/daughter what matters she still died' and well.#people point that shit out because you are already so quick to jump at condemning a whole people as mindless monsters #who only thought about raping impregnating killing their child wives and thats just. not true #do you truly believe every human back then didnt have feelings and just adhered to societal norms?#do you thinl you from the oh so enlightened future are illuminated from those filthy savages and are immune from societal bias?#i also feel that like. the way most of those people approach this is less empathy on #the women who suffered beforeha d #in that place and more 'how can i make this about me a 25 yo WASP woman' yk

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