You said that the ancient stories indoctrinated everyone to think that celibacy made life meaningless, so I thought we were playing a round of "throw wild and baseless accusations" and didn't want to miss out.
Not all heros were just chasing women around, you know. Some of the stories don't even depict women, or only have them in minor roles. Like the New Testament.
This was about depicting men being noble, rather than trottle.
What the ancients once understood, is that men and women need each other, even if no sex is involved. That the male and the female have a natural, productive interplay, beyond reproduction. That men and women both have a purpose and a nobility.
That's your interpretation. You can find anecdotal evidence for it as well as for any other interpretation of how people rationalized the dynamic of love and marriage lol.
You grasp. Culture indoctrinates. A culture that romanticizes the male hero and marriage for women indoctrinates them to be overly focused on those aspects of life and to see much of it in that light. That's what indoctrination is. It literally means to instruct in a teaching or doctrine: in-doctrinate
