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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even the Mahabharata is like a thorough endorsement of Patriarchal power structures but it's what makes mythology and its fuzzy ironic (ambivalent?) relationship with its historical context so interesting

[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

Even the Mahabharata is like a thorough endorsement of Patriarchal power structures

Yes, yes it is. Even after considering how ancient and grounded in patriarchal caste systems it always was, I'm nonetheless deeply impressed by how it plays out in the very long story. There's even a fairly-recent treatment written by a late 1800s writer that gives Draupadi a lot more agency and it was so good that some later theater treatments worked that addition in.