Re: [tied] Sarmatia

Huh! That makes me think of "Rosie the Riveter". Here in the US
during WWII, the men went to war and the women went to work. Though
popular movements for equal rights were nothing new (Susan B. Anthony
successfully fought for women's suffrage decades earlier), this
probably helped to equalize the sexes; after the war even married
mothers started working outside the home. Now it's gotten to the point
where women are more and more seeking to fight along men in military
combat. (No breast burning though, thank God.)

Of course the modern workplace and primitive hunting are very much
different. Yet similar. Both help the family survive. And both
involve fear -- of the prey among the caveman, of the boss among modern
man.

And US involvement was nowhere as close as Soviet involvement. A
Russian friend of mine told me that every Soviet citizen lost a family
member in that terrible war.

DaW.

--- Adriana Kamenetsky <adrianakusa@...> wrote:

> The unmarried Sarmatian women were warriors, fighting next to
> their men; at early adulthood, they would even burn out their right
> breast to become better archers. What a painful sacrifice for the
> sake of victory! Those heroic genes must have come from some- where.
> However, I wonder if that fact changed the view on women as a
> whole in the Sarmatian society.
> For example, tzaritza Olga (890-969) enjoyed her rulership of
> Russia, having shown ruthlessness, determination and strength as any
> other successful ruler. Before the invasion of Mongolo-Tartars for
> 300 years, the Russian women were quite equal to men in their rights.
> But after,... their were locked up in terems(houses) to become only
> the heir-producers, were supposed to ware more coverings, and lost
> all their rights. Too many rapes were witnessed, to much humiliation,
> too much cruelty and disrespect filtrated into society from the
> invadors. Perhaps equality was reestablished this century because we
> were needed so many times during the wars for survival.
> Maybe it always worked like that.
> Patriarchy or matriarchy will always produce disbalance and
> revolt.
>
>

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