Why not? So long as it is in segregated events with oversight to ensure the spectators do not crowd. They should be allowed to show the gifts the Gods gave to them. So long as a father, or brother acts as escort to ensure that they are of proper character and to negotiate any marriage proposals.
Nono I’m talking about women competing. let them. With proper attendance and oversight from a male relative it may even be a civic good to foster competition. What better way to showcase a household’s suitability amongst its peers. They would naturally be barred from wrestling or boxing, but sprints, vault, and other such events may well be excellent opportunities. This would naturally need far more robust oversight to ensure the crowds in attendance know their place and mind themselves, but it may be worth discussing further.
Granted I’m not completely against Barbarians competing in segregated or exhibition events. However in a contest of cities, they hold no stake.
What would they compete in? Weaving? Grinding grain? Expressing milk? Athletics for women? Whoever heard of such a thing? You’re talking about them as if they were something other than property.
Endurance events are a valid and valuable metric. Plus is not artemis herself a skilled huntress? While such skills and talents are indeed rarer in women, they do still exist and it is an insult to those gifts that we not encourage their expression. I will be quite selective to whom my niece is married off to and I refuse to entertain the notion that she is not an equal part of the household she will be tasked to run. That is the eventual mother of my brother’s grandchildren. She will know enough of these things so that she can keep her sons in line if they misbehave or worse, lie.
Slaves and livestock I can see, but women?!
Why not? So long as it is in segregated events with oversight to ensure the spectators do not crowd. They should be allowed to show the gifts the Gods gave to them. So long as a father, or brother acts as escort to ensure that they are of proper character and to negotiate any marriage proposals.
The Gods do not give gifts to barbarians! What a horrific thought!
Nono I’m talking about women competing. let them. With proper attendance and oversight from a male relative it may even be a civic good to foster competition. What better way to showcase a household’s suitability amongst its peers. They would naturally be barred from wrestling or boxing, but sprints, vault, and other such events may well be excellent opportunities. This would naturally need far more robust oversight to ensure the crowds in attendance know their place and mind themselves, but it may be worth discussing further.
Granted I’m not completely against Barbarians competing in segregated or exhibition events. However in a contest of cities, they hold no stake.
What would they compete in? Weaving? Grinding grain? Expressing milk? Athletics for women? Whoever heard of such a thing? You’re talking about them as if they were something other than property.
Endurance events are a valid and valuable metric. Plus is not artemis herself a skilled huntress? While such skills and talents are indeed rarer in women, they do still exist and it is an insult to those gifts that we not encourage their expression. I will be quite selective to whom my niece is married off to and I refuse to entertain the notion that she is not an equal part of the household she will be tasked to run. That is the eventual mother of my brother’s grandchildren. She will know enough of these things so that she can keep her sons in line if they misbehave or worse, lie.