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Tzetzes mocked man oblivious to need for gender equality in sex & work
By virtue of their human dignity, men are entitled to gender equality in sex and work. Yet historically men have often paid women for sex and worked outside the home to provide resources to women....
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not Penelope: sailor’s wife claims God provided him with a son
According to an early fifteenth-century Roman account, a very poor sailor in search of earnings on the seas was away from his young wife for five years. He returned home to find his dilapidated house...
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Penelope faithful, but Ulysses afraid to return home poor
Ulysses, also known as Odysseus, had spent ten years in the brutal violence against men of the Trojan War. Many men died fighting for one woman, Helen, who described herself as a “shameless whore.”...
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Juno disparaged Minerva and Venus: some difficulties of sisterhood
Juno, Minerva, and Venus all belonged to the sisterhood of women. They also were closely related. Minerva was Juno’s step-daughter and niece. The father of Juno’s husband had castrated his father,...
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Hildebert of Lavardin described Mary of Egypt’s appreciation of men
Saint Mary of Egypt has been honored around the Mediterranean and beyond from the seventh century to the present. The early Latin life of Mary of Egypt indicates that she raped a boatload of men. A...
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Tiresias’s prophetic knowledge started with Juno and Jove’s dispute
After much drinking, Jove, the nominal head god in charge of the cosmos, put aside his onerous concerns and dared to poke his boss wife Juno with gentle teasing. He told her that women receive more...
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jackboots of gyncentrism in The Thrush and the Nightingale
Nightingale, you say what you will, you say that women shall have me killed — to Hell one that would! { Nighttingale, thou seist thine wille, Thou seist that wimmen shulen me spille— Datheit wo hit...
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merits of career-woman Minerva relative to Juno and Venus
Minerva, also known as Pallas Athena, was a strong, independent woman. She had an outstanding career in military service. She was also credentialed in weaving, education, poetry, and social virtue. In...
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cuckolds don’t question; they just listen, believe and are duped
Enlightened medieval thinkers didn’t teach men to just listen and believe. They instructed men to question and investigate. That’s how objective knowledge is generated. Men who questioned and...
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The Poet’s Repentance, updated
Weeping has made my cheeks all wet for wicked words and lack of wit! Unhappy I’ll be till I’ve atoned for truthful telling, as conduct codes command, regarding ladies’ love, which I have let, that...
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men-loving Venus victorious; she shames Juno and Minerva
A delicate and vulnerable young woman, Venus, also known as Dione (“Divine One”), appealed to Paris for help. Juno had sharply criticized her. Minerva had been mean to her. Venus implored: If the...
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she for him: healthy, potent husbands vital to wives’ health
In Italy early in the fifteenth century, a woman named Giovanna become ill. A “handsome, little-knowing and untaught physician {scitulus et indoctus medicus}” came to treat her. Making a pretense of...
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John Lydgate’s early-15th-century poem of warning to men, in modern English
Look well about you who lovers be, let not your lusts lead you to dotage. Be not enamored with all things that you see: Samson the strong and Solomon the sage, deceived were for all their great...
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Phaedra and Hippolytus through Apuleius’s stepmother to Petrus Pictor
Classical literature presents family and social relations in the light of eternal truth, harmony, and beauty. From Phaedra and Hippolytus in the classical Greek dramas of Euripides to the stepmother...
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marriages between rich old men and poor young women
Marriages between rich old men and poor young women can regrettably experience difficulties. These marriages can contribute greatly to reducing wealth inequality. However, men under the oppressive...
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