No matter what the patriarchal or feminist movement tell you...it is hard to figure gender roles in the past... I doubt that yuour anti-male diatribe could hold water :)
Great diary
A pleasure I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude
But it was a funny thought, seeing those "old ancestors" as a modern day, south of France, Pétanque players, group... In the "Chi va piano, va sano..." sort of way!
About real sexism, most ancient dwellings areas are measured by the distance that can do a women with a 30 kg load twice daily... The next measuring distance tool would be the donkey or the oxen...!!!!
Not enough attention was given to the "Abduction of the Sabines women" in the constitution of early societies ! On a lighter note, the Kalahai's Meercat does that sort of "abduction" in neighboring burrows... "What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman
