"Of course they wouldn't let a woman rule."

I love how people assume the only way a woman could do anything is if she was allowed to do so, the implication being that women are so weak that they couldn't possibly get there without being allowed.

People forget that women fought and died for their current rights. Women were outright murdered while protesting the right to vote. They fucking took those rights, no one gave it to them.

And even then, the people that claim that old fashioned societies wouldn't have female rulers forget about people like Cleopatra, Boudicca and Queen Elizabeth.