probably we ended up viewing history oppressive to women because western society has eliminated a lot of war and physical labor, but not pregnancy or childcare, so we experience gender roles today as severely asymmetrical.
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"Why aren't there any women in (any given category in history)?" It's true, they spent most of their time pregnant or painfully menstruating without modern sanitary products. No one thinks of that. Women don't think of it. more to it than just intentional suppression of women
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We suffer from a societal “presentism,” wherein nothing seems like it matters to us if it did not happen in the last year or so.
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We've just outsourced war and physical labor to the margins and places out of our attention.
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I mean, both of them have been oppressed. But not in the same measure; the only reason women were not (generally) being sent to war or exploited in physical labor was because it was judged that they were too weak and unreliable for that task due to their being female.
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interesting examples, war, labor, pregnancy & childcare. All are seen as burdensome and dangerous by some, but worthwhile & meaningful by others
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we did make pregnancy/birth much less risky than it's been since agrucultute, though, didnt we? infant & maternal mortality both sharply down, family planning options that are less physically taxing than bringing a baby to term & abandoning it, etc
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