This explains that other laws had been repealed following the conclusion of war 20 years prior. Women took to the streets in protest and filled the senate. As a result the lex Oppia was revoked.
Interesting event. Let's not engage in presentism while we consider the implications of it today.
The commenter could also have said: "Let's remember we're viewing this through the looking glass of today's values."
Lewis Carroll’s use of “Through the Looking-Glass” in the title of one of his books is an explicit joke in this regard. I don’t think you meant that same joke.
"Through the looking glass" involves physical movement via a mirror and that is science fiction or fantasy or both (pick your genre or hit the drugs!) When I want to verify I have shaved fully, I look through a mirror, which is not a sight for the nervous ... first thing in the morning!
There are half silvered mirrors and you can get a similar effect with a window, where you can see yourself and what lies beyond at the same time.
The image of yourself that you see "in" the mirror isn't actually "in" the mirror. The rulers are showing you that the mirror is doing something that causes an image of you to appear exactly twice the distance from you to the mirror.
The mirror image of yourself is actually on your own retina, which is exactly the distance from you to the mirror and from the mirror to you.
We can debate semantics and to be fair, most people will use your terminology. It's bloody hard to ignore the "evidence" of your own eyes!
As a modern example, almost everyone sees Epstein as a purveyor unmitigated corruption. Imagine in 200 years people defended him because in 200 years sex trafficking is also horrible.
The root of the "presentism" complaint is just weak attempt to prevent actual engagement with history whereas you try to look at situation from more then one point of view.