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I haven’t followed the Wonder Woman series or its depiction of its Amazons in its context. I was worried it would be cissexist, but based on other responses, I had no idea just how cissexist.
I have sometimes looked into legendary accounts of the Amazons. In addition, there are the Sauro-Sarmatian womyn’s warrior graves, but these are associated with mixed communities, and therefore aren’t relevant, and there are various womyn-only and womyn-majority communities, which could be a starting point to a better portrayal. Is anyone familiar with the archaeology of womyn-only communities?
Pawleta’s “Blurring Genders” only covers one womyn-majority cemetery.
In order to survive for thousands of years without improbably long lifespans, a womyn-only community would have to either (a) welcome newcomers, such as refugees, or religious converts, or however fits with the type of community, or (b) figure out some means of fertilization with trans womyn within the community, or (c) practice heterosex with men outside the community, which would make it hard to conceal the community, or (d) rely on parthenogenesis, which might require magic.
In any case, I don’t see how any of these womyn-only communities could accept a binary trans man as a man and as one of them, if they didn’t already accept binary cis men. If they’re cissexist, they’re not going to accept him as a man. If they’re not cissexist, then they’re not going to accept him as one of them in this community, although they might offer him some help in moving out of the community. It could get more complicated if he’s bigender and identifies as both.
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I haven’t followed the Wonder Woman series or its depiction of its Amazons in its context. I was worried it would be cissexist, but based on other responses, I had no idea just how cissexist.
I have sometimes looked into legendary accounts of the Amazons. In addition, there are the Sauro-Sarmatian womyn’s warrior graves, but these are associated with mixed communities, and therefore aren’t relevant, and there are various womyn-only and womyn-majority communities, which could be a starting point to a better portrayal. Is anyone familiar with the archaeology of womyn-only communities?
Pawleta’s “Blurring Genders” only covers one womyn-majority cemetery.
In order to survive for thousands of years without improbably long lifespans, a womyn-only community would have to either (a) welcome newcomers, such as refugees, or religious converts, or however fits with the type of community, or (b) figure out some means of fertilization with trans womyn within the community, or (c) practice heterosex with men outside the community, which would make it hard to conceal the community, or (d) rely on parthenogenesis, which might require magic.
In any case, I don’t see how any of these womyn-only communities could accept a binary trans man as a man and as one of them, if they didn’t already accept binary cis men. If they’re cissexist, they’re not going to accept him as a man. If they’re not cissexist, then they’re not going to accept him as one of them in this community, although they might offer him some help in moving out of the community. It could get more complicated if he’s bigender and identifies as both.
[edited for clarification]
