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[-] Smoogs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Back when only men were allowed to hold jobs…

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 14 points 1 year ago

In Shakespearean times all cigarette girls were men.

[-] wildcardology@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Priestesses too.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Men with big boobs

[-] Jax@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah that was always one of the weirder sides of the Patriarchy, establishing naming conventions like the suffix -ess being female but still giving the title High Priestess of Athena Polias to a man.

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