And definitely no sex binary in the Hindu practice of Sati... Nothing to see there.
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Maybe a bit like Queen Elizabeth did in her speech to the troops at Tilbury (definitely no sex binary in 1588): "I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too..."https://twitter.com/elliscashmore/status/1144265049869082624 …
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And obviously in ancient Sparta male and female children were educated in exactly the same way. It simply isn't true that boys were siphoned off into agélai to prepare them to be warriors.
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Our species is fairly good at pattern recognition.
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Is this an occasion where a non-historian (i.e., me) is misusing a historical example to make a contemporary point? (That's a serious question!) I'm aware of the dangers of anachronism, of course.
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Strictly speaking, I’m not a historian (I’m in an English department), but I don’t think so—not in any way that would undermine your point.
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Thanks, that's good to know. I'm always a bit nervous invoking history, but I'm increasingly of the view that all sociologists should be required to spend a long time studying history. Might cure them of their rose tinted utopian yearnings.
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And the scientific method, and bio-statistics.
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