Brusque reflections on The Rape of the Sabine Women

Preface:

The author of these lines doesn't have an opinion or stance on the matter, due to his double nature of stranger (she's Uruguayan), and yerba mate addicted.

Parte Uno:

As you all know, this semi-epic narration, this lie, "The Rape of the Sabine Women", it comes from the very origins of Rome, this well-studied portion of history or imposture, it's a familiar matter of conjectures for the European scholar, not ignored by the educated populations of the colonies, and even it's -I would say- guessed by the uncivilized savage, who populates the most distant angles of the Orb.
Conjectures, I said HAHAHA![digression] because its own characteristics and neuroscientific conditions are intensely impregnated with fears, taboos and social symbolisms from a -back then- recently created system of behaviours, where the role of the woman was as paradoxical as crucial.

Let's say that the English word "rape" is not only inaccurate, but also a bit crass, while the original was "the kidnapping" (raptio)...a question (one of the many here): why the Romans hadn't women among them? The Sabines were another nation, call it tribal confederation if you will, the Sabines had women: mothers, sisters, daughters, travesties, how the Romans hadn't? Question.

Here the story according to the illustrious historian Errare Equinus Est:

"Romulus (Roman leader, the dude) organized a festival of Neptune Equester and proclaimed the festival among Rome's neighbo(u)rs, many people from Rome's neighbors attended this orgy, including many of the Sabines.
At the festival Romulus gave a signal (for example, expelling a stentorian flatulence, or raising one eyebrow suddenly), signal at which the Romans grabbed the Sabine women and fought off the Sabine men.
Romulus then implored the Sabine women to accept Roman husbands (for example saying something like "I implore you on my knees, oh Sabine women!: facilitate us your cunts, or we're gonna crucify you" etc.)"

The thing didn't stop here: several Sabine kings invaded Rome to wash this outrage in blood, but all they were defeated, because the Romans were more gangsta, and especially because they had a thing called machine gun (weapon which fell into oblivion in the Middle Ages, to be rediscovered by the Italo-American delinquent businessman Al Capone recently).

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Parte dos:

Is quite plain to see for the student here, how -if you allow me- the woman is massively stolen, for the first time in an organized civilization, turning her into a simple thing, a good: the Sabine women were not different -in the eyes of the Romans- to a cow or a washing machine, or a motorcycle.
Let's add that in ancient times, this degradation of the feminine condition was not scandalous, not even important: the Sabine blokes were furious because the Romans stole something from their inventory, whatever it was.

I doubt seriously the Sabine dudes were more lucid or egalitarian, or humane than the Romans (possibly they were even less), but their irrational inner beast, their human-animal appeared when the Romans snitched their possession, brutal and blind reaction which won't be substantially different to our neighbor's reaction if we prig their lawnmower, or any merchandise to which he has legal title, for example his wife. 
An enigmatic part of the story, the most enigmatic actually, is the attitude, the voice of the Sabine women, their 2 cents on this: what did they do? What did they say about all this brutal event? The historian doesn't say it, maybe they just stayed passive, or maybe they just said, timidly and without much conviction things like "ay, no! Leave me alone horrible, callous Roman kidnapper of Sabine women!"

Etc.



As epilogue to this lamentable monography, esteemed reader, we stay with the vivid description of the German historian Tito Merkel:

"Following the reconciliation, the Sabines agreed to form one same nation with the Romans, and the Sabine king, Titus Tatius Tatiana, jointly ruled Rome with Romulus, until Titus Tatius's death, five years later...the new Sabine residents of Rome lived on the Capitoline Hill, a sort of ancient koncentration kamp, kinda Auschwitz.
All this joy was saluted by Her Sacred Hotness the goddess Aphrodite in person, who gave Rome a massive blowjobbing, dressed in her futuristic, pink leather outfits."

Salute, hijos de puta.