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 definitely no sex binary in the Hindu practice of Sati... Nothing to see there.
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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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That is interesting, what proportion of female warriors did they have?
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Zero - or at least close to zero. Though, in Ancient terms, Spartan women were actually relatively emancipated.
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