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>There are people who unironically believe that rich Roman women in ancient Rome must have disliked their lives because they lived a life of nothing but leisure, married very young to rich young (sometimes old) men, lived in luxury, and couldn't into politics and military campaigns.
They even manage to make a 13 year old girl "forced to wear"(I mean how dreadful am I right?) lots of expensive and beautiful jewelry look like a burden for her. A 13 year old girl!
I'm not saying the lives of Roman women were always great compared to men. For one thing, there were certainly many double standards and limits on female conduct in public. Considering, however, they were socialized to marriage, children, luxury and beauty above anything else was desirable (it is "feminine"), I can't see how unhappy they could be over such things presented in this video.
Minus the gladiator thing. Was that true btw? I learned in a class once that women had to sit all the way in the back at the Colosseum. This wasn't the case for the horse races though. Was it only noble women or all women?
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>implying a wealthy family wouldn't have their own bath
Oh and the comments are just terrible
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I guess I should add the video is from Ted-Ed so this level of bias and fuckery is not surprising.
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Modern historians overdo it by assuming women were always living horrible lives. Using Rome as an example, it's objectively clear that Roman women had more rights than Greek women.
socialized to view*
dammit.
That's the funny part. It's mentioned from the beginning of the video. Outside of comparison though, historians seem to forget their own concepts of socialization and gender as a social construction. IF women are raised to believe such activities are feminine and marriage + children are the highest achievements for a woman, how then could they all simultaneously be unhappy? Sure some aren't allowed to realize their potentials so that can cause lack of fulfillment in some one if they "want more" out of life personally but it's hard to extrapolate that too all women.
Whoops meant to add you to that earlier post.
Annual reminder that rich girls were in fact educated in Roman schools.
>Feminist historians
FTFY. Serious modern historians now that everyone has had it shit, pretty much since the dawn of time, and that the oppressions of women are matched by oppressions upon men.
I don't think they were schooled formally and they definitely didn't go to uni. They had tutors though.
Funny, it was actually believed at one point that upper class Roman women didn't read and write because there was never a letter found a woman author. Then there was finally was one found. It was by a woman writing to her friend who was living on Frontiers with her Governor Husband. It turns out, they could write and did write letters, but most of the time they just had their scribe slaves write it for them.
>muh oppression
Suck a dick.