Monday, February 24, 2025

How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms. Really!

Nice try by a professor at Boston College to explain why "Gender diversity is not simply a late 20th- or early 21st-century phenomenon." Many such flawed attempts were made before to provide historical foundations.

One of the professor's examples:
"... The galli, another group that lived in the heart of the city of Rome, also blurred gender roles. They were males who had castrated their genitalia in dedication to the Great Mother goddess Cybele, who was their protector. ..."

How many died doing this nonsense, i.e. self castration? Dedication to a god does not mean gender diversity!

How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms


Tom Sapsford, Assistant Professor


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