Anti-Bottom society
Opinions of the Roman Empire would be vastly different if popular media actually depicted the family or sexuality and gender with any accuracy and without the lens of contemporary conceptions of these topics.
HBO’s Rome did a halfway decent job of it.
But modern producers typically feel the need to filter ancient civilizations through a modern lense. So you end up with The Token Person Who Breaks The Mold creating the illusion of egalitarianism where none exists. Or you focus so laser-like on the aristocracy that everyone else becomes invisible .
You rarely get plot arcs that are simply about foreign captives and females family members attempting to navigate life when your status is that of commodity, rather than as another power broker.
:screm: ‘sexuality not based on gender’ —> ‘society was patriarchal’ in 3 seconds flat :picard:
for the love of god im begging people to frame greco-roman sexuality in “radical-misogynist” terms instead of trying to torture it into ‘gay’. Gay is good romans are a fuck :free-everyone:
A list of bourgeoisie power brokers and military dictators who existed above the social order that kept the plebiscite turned against one another
:is-this: Is This Intersectionality?
This is like someone in future using 4chan as historical authority who is gay… Only Caesar played publicly with Greek fashion which in that time alluded to male sexual relationships which was seen as decadent and down upon. But yeah, entertaining accusations are always going to get more play.
