Submissive woman or bound slave: interpreting oracle bone forms as a Rorschach test

We've been discussing the oracle bone form (late 2nd millennium BC) of nǚ女 ("woman; female"):   (WP) I've always felt that it shows the profile of a submissive, kneeling female figure with her arms crossed in front of her (I say this after examining scores of variants of OB forms of 女). Lately, however, some scholars have […]