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You Buy Me a Beer, You Know?
In some China, the neo-confusion scholars lavish praise on women who sacrificed themselves for male honor. And we see the same in Indian text where that's by committing sati or killing themselves before invaders came from Central Asia. Even today there are shrines for women who committed sati, et cetera. The more of these things you give up in order to join, the longer the cult lasts.