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Melanie McDonagh

OPINION - Women can think about the Roman Empire too

A year on, it’s still going on. The Roman Empire is still big online. Men are still thinking about it, anything from a couple of times a day to three or four times a month, or possibly twice a year.

We got this fun fact courtesy of Swedish TikTok influencer Saskia Cort, who asked her followers to ask their boyfriends how often they thought about the Roman Empire. She, and they, were startled to find out how often this was the case. Mind you, the present trend may be less a result of men thinking spontaneously about the age of the Caesars and more to do with the fact that this is a thing online. Still, if men are even pretending, it tells us a good deal.

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