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justinian

 Europe had a huge war that lasted nearly 8 years over if a woman could become the first Holy Roman Empress, in a break from Medieval Frankish law, and she won. (Don’t get too excited, her reign was fairly conservative, even for the time)
13 upvotes, 8 comments. Sidechat image post by justinian in US Politics. "Europe had a huge war that lasted nearly 8 years over if a woman could become the first Holy Roman Empress, in a break from Medieval Frankish law, and she won. (Don’t get too excited, her reign was fairly conservative, even for the time)"
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Idk if it’s funny or abhorrent… but on this far right “news” source the top comments were “keep women out of politics, there’s a reason they were left out before and it’s not sexism” (it was. Queens? Empresses?) on an article WRITTEN BY A WOMAN
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Anonymous 5d

The Margaret Thatcher effect (woman wins against odds but is more conservative than male opponents)

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Anonymous 1w

Nah I’m talking before that. In Rome the empresses conducted a lot of the administrative work, especially if the emperor was particularly fond of combat. Many plotted for their own dynasty to take over (Zenobia in palmyra), and many more were so important they had their own currency minted

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 1w

You’re totally right (look at my pfp, nobody is a bigger Empress Theodora simp than I am)

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 1w

I’m pretty sure my family tree app as her as like a 30th great grandmother but that’s just bc we have a line back to medieval royalty

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

Hmm… maybe? Maybe… learn something new every day

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

I have heard of this but for democratic elections though, which is why I think the first female US president will be a Republican. The theory is that sexist voters who would believe a female president would be weak, emotional, or dismissive of men would be convinced to overcome those concerns and vote for a woman if she was very right wing. (A “one of the good ones” situations but for sexists)

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 5d

I assumed it was a phenomenon around elections. Is it more inherent than that?

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Anonymous replying to -> justinian 5d

Yeah that was what I was talking about lol. I was extrapolating and speculating

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