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.
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.