That example (from Ancient Egypt) could support any number of alternative narratives, Al. The point that particular writer was trying to make, is that Feminism is not a foreign (western) import into his country, but rather represents an older, Egyptian tradition which has, conversely, exerted a positive influence over the profoundly patriarchal West (via the relatively modern British obsession with Egyptology)
I do find his point of view intersting and refreshingly different ( and recommend reading the full article) but, no thank you, I don’t want to join a bunch of dots, jump to conclusions, impose my own narrative on History, then play ideological wargames over it. I just wanted to throw something in that doesn’t sit easily with your simplistic narrative, then see what you do with it.
As for those loaded questions you’re firing at me: well, you can trust me to just carry on absorbing different perspectives and expanding my model of the Universe accordingly. I like doing that, can formulate relevant questions all by myself (believe it or not) and don‘t need prompting from you in that respect.