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View submission: capitalism's demolition will not dismantle misogyny.
Do you have sources for the info you provided on the Minoan civilization?? This is the first I've read about it and I'd LOVE to read more!!!
Comment by Due_Dirt_8067 at 28/03/2024 at 18:13 UTC
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I have cretan roots in my ethnicity - and picked up on this doing a study abroad course in Ancient Crete history to get to visit as an adult.
I’ll pass on sources as I find them again, for sure ;) There is a lot of info online, and a lot of it is theoretical since it’s all 4000+ BC ancient artifacts. But you can see clearly from the art : young women and men are equally participating in society in events! The genders are all broad, strong and tall and athletic. Goddess and fertility worship is more prevalent compared to patriarchal mono theism that became the norm.
Why was there so little internal warfare and conflict? Seems like it was a merchant sea faring civilization and the men were depicted as deeply tan working out doors, while the women were in charge of daily life, homesteading economics and commerce. Most art work depicted natural beauty of sea life, local fauna, intricate patterns and men serving women along with lady attendants. And snake goddesses all strong and tall with bare breasts and adorned comfortably with jewelry. So much androgeny as the “ideal” compared to later times.
Check out Minoan Art to start, if you choose to compare and contrast how men and women are depicted. Even with classical Greece in later centuries that was warlike and had women as property and non- citizens, there is a steep contrast. This is when you have “pornography” become a thing- the literal depiction of “porni” which were part of the sex slave class. Pornography was always the graphic depiction of abusing the sex slaves, the worst fate - slaves in brothels. Otherwise, women in classical ancient Greece were wives kept indoors, or concubines/seers who could be selective in sex cults - or porni in seedy brothels subject to anything for a price. Classical patriarchal domination and old boys club racket.