Ah those women 
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The reaction of men to women who rebuff them can be resentment.
How that resentment transformed into historical incidents would be fascinating to know.
AnonySchmoose
Level 8
Oct 29, 2019
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The contrary also applies hence the maxim "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
May I ask have you read Niccolò Machiavelli's
Discourses on the first Ten (Books) of Titus Livius?
Perhaps if you had you would know that chapter 26 of book three is actually called
HOW A STATE IS RUINED BECAUSE OF WOMEN
and refers to a specific incident of a civil war being caused because of a woman being forced in to a marriage against her will and the men of the city state raising up to save her!
LenHazell53
Level 9
Oct 29, 2019
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Then shouldn't he title it? How states are ruined on a account of men, then?
@Friskycat
Well for one thing he has been dead since 1527
For another the chapter is not an accusation of anything, it is an account
And finally the story is only being commented on by Machiavelli and was in fact written down by Titus Livius who died in 17CE
So in short, no he should not have because he had neither the right nor any reason to do so.
@LenHazell53 You’re probably right historically, doesn’t mean I’m wrong.
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