Wednesday, September 10, 2008
The Senate "NO GIRLS ALLOWED!!"
I find it interesting how the Senate seems to resemble a bunch of 10 yr old boys starting a "no girls allowed club". First of all you couldn't be a woman, so that establishes the first rule of the club and then there are the other guide lines. Since the community are divided into two groups; patricians and plebeians it resembles today who the boys of a club would choose into their club by maybe what kind of possesions they had. My reasoning for this is only patricians could sit on the Senate because they were clan leaders. They were leaders because the either had wealth, trade, power or the military. It would be like the boys in the club showing that they out rank other boys because they have a Playstation, or the name brand bike or their house is the most fun to hang out at, and these give them passage into the club.
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I really liked the way you described the senate. It made it interesting to read and imagine. So in your own opinion what roles could women have played in the senate and do you think it would have been a different story if women would've been allowed to be part of it?
I definitely believe that women would made a difference. I believe that instead of using warfare for every answer and betrayal awaiting every corner women would have added a different dimension to how the senate would have thought.
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