@ReonHanbaga@tracewoodgrains —Augustine thinks that the husband is basically getting cucked by this and instead should be taking matters into his own hands
@ReonHanbaga@tracewoodgrains filly through a violent initiatory sexual experience to accept their place in the social hierarchy. The difference, here, is that Augustine disagrees with the pagans that much of the coercion is not actually physically effected by the husband but by the gods
@tracewoodgrains Augustine is an interesting guy, one the one hand, radically rejects sexual assault as impairing a woman’s virginity and the idea that they should kill themselves to retain virtue, on the other, really loves marital rape and describes it in both positive and fairly graphic terms
@athena_sfw in the name of the anthropology of religion, the religious studies, and of the belief that the state ought not stake positions on religious theology, i beseech thee to reconsider,
@Kmoyi7@opinionatedobs7@StatisticUrban like okay well immigration in America shouldn’t mean that then? it shouldn’t anywhere? But that’s also entirely irrelevant?
It’s very important to me that you, reader, know that photograph is not Longueuil. That’s Montreal, the city which Longueuil is a suburb of.
Longueuil looks like this.
I wonder how much the 5th Century Roman situation was like what we saw not long ago in Syria and Afghanistan, where armies which on paper had huge advantages in men & equipment were in reality totally rotten edifices that melted away at first contact with the enemy.
It’s well known Americans hate children but we also hate teenagers and absolutely despise people in their early twenties. In America you’re basically dead past 30 so the only acceptable age to be is 26, which is also coincidentally the worst year of your life.