The vast majority of countries that used to have this problem addressed it by abolishing the peerage entirely The idea that this is some difficult pie in the sky task and we need to make a gender neutral peerage as an intermediate step is fucking laughablehttps://twitter.com/SophieRunning/status/1327884125634703363 …
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And all those suo jure duchesses vanished because one way or another those countries ended up abolishing the peerage and taking the duchy back for the people Which I guess we're supposed to be sad about? It reduced the total amount of Girl Power in the aristocracy?
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It's just fucking absurd that we're supposed to believe life actually gets better for women in general if you make it easier for a few dozen women who won a birth lottery to be gifted free wealth and power
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Yeah - I mean, all it really does is show how feeble the English nobility is, because really, there are no titles worth inheriting except for a wisp of prestige, and that's barely worth fighting for.
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Except somehow - or because of it, maybe - it outlasted all the other ones.
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