Women’s equivalent of the Roman Empire

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Anonymous wrote:Princess Diana for me! Once a week.

Oh that’s a good one. I think about her a lot too. Probably more than once a week. I think if she had lived she would have continued to be villainized by society for … just for basically existing.

She just popped up on my instagram today- said it was Princess Di weather (shorts and sweatshirt). Plus I think of her whenever there's H&M news.

Not really equivalent of thinking about Roman Empire - more a modern popular cult following phenom …

Also not surprising since media continues to exploit her image and life events to sell papers/ shows …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

Aztec too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

Now that would be an unlikely equivalent of thinking regularly about the Roman Empire …

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

No, thank you. All that blood and sacrifice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reporting that I asked the guys in my family and was surprised

What did they say?!

Most were like not a lot. Upon probing between 4-12 times a month on average.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Reporting that I asked the guys in my family and was surprised

What did they say?!

Most were like not a lot. Upon probing between 4-12 times a month on average.

That is so funny!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

No, thank you. All that blood and sacrifice.

Romans did lots of that too. Most historical civilizations had some cool stuff (temples, pyramids, art) and some really f'ed-up stuff (gladiators, human sacrifice, misogyny)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

No, thank you. All that blood and sacrifice.

Check your bias

And the Romans were squeaky clean without slavery, gladiators fighting to death, and widespread corruption/ sexual debauchery among their aristocrats who were u fettered by any democratic constraints?

The Mayans were so much more than highly
Contained and ritualized sacrifices -
They developed advanced math/ astrology/ agricultural irrigation/ and more.

[Anonymous]

Also maybe this is me being pedantic but one of the most prominent classicists of the modern day is Mary Beard... a woman. Not sure where this idea that only dudes like Rome came from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Mayan empire was pretty awesome too. Just sayin.

No, thank you. All that blood and sacrifice.

Check your bias

And the Romans were squeaky clean without slavery, gladiators fighting to death, and widespread corruption/ sexual debauchery among their aristocrats who were u fettered by any democratic constraints?

The Mayans were so much more than highly
Contained and ritualized sacrifices -
They developed advanced math/ astrology/ agricultural irrigation/ and more.

The Mayans were a huge death cult. Whatever you want to say about the Roman Empire, good or bad, it wasn't a death cult.

[Anonymous]

This disconnect between Gen Z humor and everyone else is really on display in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This disconnect between Gen Z humor and everyone else is really on display in this thread.

Gen Z humor = it's not funny

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe it’s that ColdPlay song about Roman Cavalry Choirs singing they incessantly play on the radio.

Are you posting from 2008?

[Anonymous]

The teen magazines of my youth. Sassy (especially), Teen, YM, Seventeen. Articles, fashion, quizzes, the things they made me feel would be important about femininity and culture vs. the things that actually are. This is probably not a blanket answer for all women but it did pop up a lot in my discussion with friends my age (40s). Denise Richards is still just a Teen model to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I think of psychology everyday.

how people think, why people do things the way they do things, why sibling are the same/different, why different cultures do things differently, how good is integrated differently in different cultures.

Not really equivalent of thinking about Empire - more a modern popular culture phenom …

Lol. No. You don’t understand the assignment.

Psychology has been around longer than the Roman Empire

But… thinking about your ex best friend is like the Roman Empire. Ffs.