Particularly with 'women are made to feel' arguments which claim certain behaviours of women to be a result of cultural conditioning.
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If history shows us anything, its that women are pretty good at resisting cultural conditioning & finding a way to do what they want to do.
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Lots of scholarly books showing how many texts existed in late medieval period telling women to STFU. This is horrible, obv. However, 1/2
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...historians will point out that very existence of so mant books/sermons/treatises etc telling women to shut up shows they weren't doing so
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Shouldn't think that men as a whole wanted them to. Wonderful story of William de Swynderby who preached constantly abt wickedness of women
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Around 1380, the townswomen proposed a plan among themselves to stone him out of town & he hastily turned his attention to merchants.
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Where were the men whilst this plan was being hatched? They had the authority to stop it. Seems they largely thought it was fair enough.
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So Swynderby goes down in history from contemporary male chroniclers as someone who 'never knew when to stop.'
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If you want to know more abt this, good summary in G.R. Owst's Preaching in Medieval England.
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@HPluckrose Reminds me of this classic bit of "feminist logic":pic.twitter.com/BX1X8WDaGc
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I would defy them, but I'm too busy weightlifting and reading about war.
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YES! So true.
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Cplaining constantly abt pressures may also be self - fulfilling prophecy too
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"Life is not easy" is the alternative title.
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"Easier said than done." is a double edge sword.
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