The Notorious SLAV
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Why did every peasant rebellion in medieval Europe target nobles in general, rather than just noblemen? Same with slave rebellions. Ditto when a new dynasty/clan had usurped some territory or a position, and to make sure they'll retain a hold of it, they would target and/or imprison all the immediate family members of the previous owner, regardless of age or gender?
You don't target those who pose no possible threat to you. According to the mainstream misandrist interpretation of history, women were effectively second-class citizens who were limited in, if not expelled from, any access to wealth, influence and power to such an extent that they effectively might as well have all been below even the lowest male serf when it came to power hierarchies and possibilities to climb them. For an example of this thinking, a month or so ago in an anthology book I've been reading, there was a feminist story set in some time before WWI, where there were comical scenes like the mandatory abused teenage bride starting to cry hysterically after being told that she gave birth to a daughter, because she "Knew that she had brought another life that will only be abused and never hold any power."
Yet, if anything, whenever violence had historically gotten political and based on who held power, that is when gender had become irrelevant and foids were targeted as well. We have ample evidence of them commonly not being targeted in cases of interpersonal violence where often nobody involved held any serious power and where power over people wasn't one of the causes, such as blood feuds between families and in street crime. Both of those are the case now as well, anyone who doubts that can go look at how quickly any and all foids in a group become completely irrelevant to everyone once a street fight between two groups breaks out. That obviously makes sense, since, as I've said, you don't target those who pose no threat to you, and, although I'm the type of a guy to always point out that foids are responsible for much more violence than people think, it's true that their ability to cause physical violence isn't up to par with men's on average.
Which only makes it that much more jarring that they very much were targeted whenever a lower-status group had rebelled against a higher-status one. Obviously, likely not as much as men have, they never are because men are hardwired to protect foids and in any situation where foid casualties can be minimized by male ones being maximalized, they will be, but in those political types of conflict they were much more often targeted along with men than in irrelevant, interpersonal blood feuds and street crime, both of which were men-only, mostly young men against other mostly young men things for as long as we have records of them.
While historians and feminists wax lyrical about the supposed pitiful state of women for most of history, kept in metaphorical, if not real cages, with even the most privileged of them being just "privileged puppets" with no power over their own lives and bound to a live of abuse and servitude comparable to those of other oppressed groups in society, the people actually living in those times don't seem to have ever seen it that way. No peasant rebellion has ever decided to not target noblewomen because they were "equally oppressed" as them or whatever, they just went to smash their heads in just like they did to their husbands, brothers and sons. No slave rebellion has ever done that either. When a powerful noble house had decided to wipe out another powerful noble house, the women of the latter were never, or only rarely, shown any mercy (this being the only type of blood feuds where women were targeted at scale).
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/12o3qag/are_there_any_historical_examples_of_noble_houses/
You'd think if those "privileged puppets" were as powerless in their own right as constantly described by misandrist historians, both right-wing and left-wing, political violence would be completely androcidal, since it would make no sense for it to be anything else than a gendercide targeting men alone. You'd expect history to be littered with stories of noblewomen and other privileged women surviving peasant and slave rebellions, upper-class infighting, ethnic cleansings and successful revolutions unharmed, because they themselves would've had no power which they could've continued using against the downtrodden, yet that has never happened. Instead, this type of conflict is the least gendercidal one of all, with it being the irrelevant, random killings on the street that almost solely targeted males, which they do even now.
Just look at the ethnic cleansings in the 20th century. After WWII ended and most of CEE decided to kick the Germans out, the German foids weren't exempted. Neither were Polish foids when Banderites started massacring Poles. Or we can go a couple of centuries back, and see how indiscriminate the German peasants were during the Peasants' War in 16th century. Or well over a millenium back to one of the things that really got me thinking over this. A lot is made of how unique Wu Zetian was to be the only reigning Empress in Chinese history, and how ruthless she was to get there, but funnily enough, considering how suppposedly impossible the mere thought of a woman attaining a powerful position would've been for anyone else, she herself didn't seem to think so, if the ruthlessness with which she dealt with the female members of the imperial family's rival lines is any indication. Not how someone deals with people who don't pose any threat to them, I'd say.
For how key to people's lives and opportunities gender supposedly was for most of history, it had a remarkable ability to become irrelevant whenever any other power differential (class, status, race/ethnicity) was introduced, and in the end, people's actual actions exposed what their world was truly like.
You don't target those who pose no possible threat to you. According to the mainstream misandrist interpretation of history, women were effectively second-class citizens who were limited in, if not expelled from, any access to wealth, influence and power to such an extent that they effectively might as well have all been below even the lowest male serf when it came to power hierarchies and possibilities to climb them. For an example of this thinking, a month or so ago in an anthology book I've been reading, there was a feminist story set in some time before WWI, where there were comical scenes like the mandatory abused teenage bride starting to cry hysterically after being told that she gave birth to a daughter, because she "Knew that she had brought another life that will only be abused and never hold any power."
Yet, if anything, whenever violence had historically gotten political and based on who held power, that is when gender had become irrelevant and foids were targeted as well. We have ample evidence of them commonly not being targeted in cases of interpersonal violence where often nobody involved held any serious power and where power over people wasn't one of the causes, such as blood feuds between families and in street crime. Both of those are the case now as well, anyone who doubts that can go look at how quickly any and all foids in a group become completely irrelevant to everyone once a street fight between two groups breaks out. That obviously makes sense, since, as I've said, you don't target those who pose no threat to you, and, although I'm the type of a guy to always point out that foids are responsible for much more violence than people think, it's true that their ability to cause physical violence isn't up to par with men's on average.
Which only makes it that much more jarring that they very much were targeted whenever a lower-status group had rebelled against a higher-status one. Obviously, likely not as much as men have, they never are because men are hardwired to protect foids and in any situation where foid casualties can be minimized by male ones being maximalized, they will be, but in those political types of conflict they were much more often targeted along with men than in irrelevant, interpersonal blood feuds and street crime, both of which were men-only, mostly young men against other mostly young men things for as long as we have records of them.
While historians and feminists wax lyrical about the supposed pitiful state of women for most of history, kept in metaphorical, if not real cages, with even the most privileged of them being just "privileged puppets" with no power over their own lives and bound to a live of abuse and servitude comparable to those of other oppressed groups in society, the people actually living in those times don't seem to have ever seen it that way. No peasant rebellion has ever decided to not target noblewomen because they were "equally oppressed" as them or whatever, they just went to smash their heads in just like they did to their husbands, brothers and sons. No slave rebellion has ever done that either. When a powerful noble house had decided to wipe out another powerful noble house, the women of the latter were never, or only rarely, shown any mercy (this being the only type of blood feuds where women were targeted at scale).
View: https://www.reddit.com/r/dune/comments/12o3qag/are_there_any_historical_examples_of_noble_houses/
You'd think if those "privileged puppets" were as powerless in their own right as constantly described by misandrist historians, both right-wing and left-wing, political violence would be completely androcidal, since it would make no sense for it to be anything else than a gendercide targeting men alone. You'd expect history to be littered with stories of noblewomen and other privileged women surviving peasant and slave rebellions, upper-class infighting, ethnic cleansings and successful revolutions unharmed, because they themselves would've had no power which they could've continued using against the downtrodden, yet that has never happened. Instead, this type of conflict is the least gendercidal one of all, with it being the irrelevant, random killings on the street that almost solely targeted males, which they do even now.
Just look at the ethnic cleansings in the 20th century. After WWII ended and most of CEE decided to kick the Germans out, the German foids weren't exempted. Neither were Polish foids when Banderites started massacring Poles. Or we can go a couple of centuries back, and see how indiscriminate the German peasants were during the Peasants' War in 16th century. Or well over a millenium back to one of the things that really got me thinking over this. A lot is made of how unique Wu Zetian was to be the only reigning Empress in Chinese history, and how ruthless she was to get there, but funnily enough, considering how suppposedly impossible the mere thought of a woman attaining a powerful position would've been for anyone else, she herself didn't seem to think so, if the ruthlessness with which she dealt with the female members of the imperial family's rival lines is any indication. Not how someone deals with people who don't pose any threat to them, I'd say.
For how key to people's lives and opportunities gender supposedly was for most of history, it had a remarkable ability to become irrelevant whenever any other power differential (class, status, race/ethnicity) was introduced, and in the end, people's actual actions exposed what their world was truly like.
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