Women's Roles
- grace8031
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Re: Women's Roles
- Zain A Blade
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How so? I'm not saying we should take the Roman view that they were uncivilized barbarians a 100% seriously, but the Celts didn't even leave behind their own writings by which we could judge them. To say that they were more advanced than the Romans is a very bold statement.
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Again, I warmly respect your opinion, but as someone who has both, genetically, Celt and Viking blood (Iceland and Northern Scotland) running through my veins, I have studied the cultures for many of my 46 years.
So I've been doing some reading and from what I understand there was no such thing as "Celts." Instead, it was various different tribes and people from the British Isles to Anatolia. There is no answer to that question because there was no such thing as a Celtic system.
Besides that, as a history lover, I have grown extremely skeptical about claims of ancient matriarchal or gender-equal societies. There's no solid evidence for them, just wishful thinking that doesn't align with reality. I'm just sick of certain feminists who think rewriting history is going to "inspire women" or something like that when all it does is delegitimize the movement and makes them appear like quacks.
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Looking back on my comment I realize I didn't fully elaborate on what I meant. The original poster, as well as many other commentators, seemed to imply that all Celts had the same identical culture and views on women across all of Europe. You wouldn't say Athenians and Spartans had the same beliefs about gender roles just because they were both Greek, so how can we say the same about Celts? Especially since we know so little about them compared to the Romans.Kgaelsdottir wrote: ↑23 Sep 2018, 19:43 I would warmly have to disagree with the statement below about there being no such thing as Celts--one could say the same, from this perspective, that there were no such things as Greeks, or Gauls, or Moors, for that matter...
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No. Kidding. There are a lot of reasons to be happy I'm not living in ancient Rome, not least of which is the deadly and rampant misogyny...Zain A Blade wrote: ↑21 Sep 2018, 15:10 There was certainly a clear difference in the depiction of the way the two camps treated women. In any case, I like the authentic way that the author treated Roman misogyny. I remember that the Roman council actually debated whether women had a soul (or whether it was ok to kill them like animals). Thank God I was born in this time and age.
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