If women weren't oppressed, what drove feminism in the first place? Why did we have to rally for the right to vote if our lives were fine without it? Or do you think women have been oppressed in recent history, but not through most of history?https://twitter.com/Aella_Girl/status/1303080505798062080 …
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I think this was basically it. Technological innovation from the industrial revolution through the turn of the century made a lot of "woman's work" obsolete, or at least much, much more efficient. And suddenly laws built around the assumption of this work seemed oppressive.
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Or rather, suddenly became oppressive, as women found themselves needing to find new things to do with their free time. Add in short memories and it's easy to see how it becomes cast as some sort of evil conspiracy.
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In 1987, my mom was in school to be a millwright. She was going through a custody battle over myself and my sister. Knowing that my father was an alcoholic, had a history of violence and drug addictions...
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... he awarded my mother custody on the condition that she quit school and get a job fit for a woman because a millwright is a man's job that she's unfit for.
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