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love_katz

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2. It is tempting to conclude...
Sun Oct 26, 2014, 12:32 PM
Oct 2014

that some women went to live in Amazon tribes because the way women were treated in patriarchal societies, like the Greeks, was completely unacceptable to any women who had the slightest shred of self-respect.

Probably it is closer to the truth that these women had always lived that way and perhaps some of the Greeks were afraid their own women would get 'ideas' if they knew about it.

Anyway, it is nice to know that there is physical evidence for their existence. Personally, I've never really doubted it, because my desire to live an independent life must come from somewhere.

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