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hollytakestumbles:

justin-john:

wtfhistory:

theshewomanboyhatersclub:

jesuisuneetoile:

THIS IS MARRIAGE!!

Thats right!

Permission to be a bad ass. Nod.

He looks back at the guy like, “SEE THAT? SHE SAID YES. YOU’RE SO FUCKED.”

Like, guys. Sparta was so kick ASS sometimes when it came to women. Spartan women were given these small knives so that if their husbands came home and tried to hit them or assault them, they had a weapon within reach. That weapon was for CUTTING THEIR HUSBANDS’ FUCKING FACES so that when he went out in public everyone would know he was an asshole, abusing jerkface and they would publicly shame him.

I DID NOT KNOW THAT THAT IS GREAT

LET’S JUST TALK ABOUT SPARTAN WOMEN FOR A SECOND.

In Sparta, women could own land and were considered citizens. THAT IS A HUGE BIG FUCKING DEAL. Why? Because that was RARE AS FUCK and there are lots of places TODAY where women don’t even get that much.

Divorce was totally fine, and a woman could expect to keep her own wealth and get custody of the kids because paternal lineage wasn’t very important. And it didn’t make her a pariah! She could totally remarry, no big deal at all.

Spartan women participated in some fuckin’ badass sporting events, too. And because they were expected to be as physically fit as the Spartan menfolk (who all had to serve compulsory military duties, btw, and couldn’t marry until they finished them at thirty) they didn’t have time for lots of swishy dresses. So they wore notoriously short skirts. According to some accounts, their thighs were visible at all times. HOLY SHIT.

Also, In Sparta men only got their names on their graves if they died in battle. And women? Women only got their names on their graves if they died in childbirth. THE SPARTANS COMPARED CHILDBIRTH TO FUCKING BATTLE AND IT WAS VIEWED AS A GODDAMN BADASS AND HONORABLE WAY TO GO OUT.

FUCKING SPARTAN WOMEN. THIS DUDE HAD FUCKIN’ BETTER MAKE SURE SHE’S COOL WITH WHATEVER HE’S DOING, IF HE KNOWS WHAT’S FUCKIN’ GOOD FOR HIM.

^^ I throughly enjoyed the history lesson dashed with the colorful adjectives.

Lena Headey plays a great badass protective mother/queen

Other amazing points of Spartan society for women:

Spartan law forbade marriage to girls until they were in their late teenage years. The idea was to ensure the healthy pregnancy for both mother and child
Unlike other areas in the world at the time, women were literate and educated.
If a woman had no living brothers and her father passed, in other areas of the world, it was customary for her to divorce her husband and marry the nearest paternal relative to control the estate. This was not the case in Sparta.
I strongly advise people to look up Queen Gorgo; she was the daughter of Cleomenes and wife to Leonidas I.
Dowries were not accepted for marriages as it was thought brides should be chosen for character and physical sturdiness rather than economic standing.
The act of ‘wife-sharing’ was encouraged in Sparta for the sole purpose of child-bearing. If a woman has given birth to a healthy and strong baby, an unmarried or childless man could request another man’s wife to bear a child for him. This was mainly due to the fact that many Spartan men were off fighting in wars in distant lands.
Women were not expecting to do any household tasks like weaving and cleaning. It was preferred that they focus more on their health, bearing children, and supervising anyone that worked for the household.
Being the mother of an honored warrior was as respected as being the honored warrior. It was considered to be one of the highest honors a Spartan woman could receive.

Being a mother was actually respected. If you bore children, you were considered a contributing member of Sparta and held in higher regard than counterparts in any other classical civilization. If you had strong and healthy babies, it was better. If they were male, yes, it was better for eventually adding to the Spartan military, but considering Spartan society was predominately female aside from older men, having a girl wasn’t frowned upon, but still contributing to the future of Sparta.

(via suck-my-master-sw0rd)

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