as in; men generally have had the advantage of agency and disadvantage of disposability, while women generally had the advantage of safety and disadvantage of no autonomy. I wonder how our narratives would change if our culture provided high autonomy but no safety.
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Like, maybe culture granted two 'gifts' - safety to women, and agency to men. Now we're in a culture where safety is granted to everyone, and so the obvious discrepancy is in agency. We forgot what it was like to be unsafe, and so we judge the two gifts as inequal.
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And to be clear, I'm not totally sure yet. I haven't tried putting this idea on and fighting other ideas in it yet so I'm not sure how battle-worthy it is.
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In at least some senses it's the opposite. Physical strength no longer valued in labour market. Masculinity regarded as toxic. Traits like empathy coded 'feminine' more valued in public life today.
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Women have been routinely oppressed by men in basically all societies, with on a few exceptions. What do you call not being able to vote, not being allowed to own property, requiring make permission to find a partner and marry, if it wasn't arranged, not allowed to go to school
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Not allowed to have a job if you were married or pregnant, shamed a f you had a child out of marriage, not allowed to live with your partner unless you were married, and many other things? These were almost all things that men routinely did that women were not able to do until
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Yet anytime you bring up that addressing Aziz Ansari and Harvey Weinstein in the same conversation loses the plot, you are dismissed as victim blaming.
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Just look at female average age throughout the years. A handful of women were "safe" but even then they have just been baby mulch.
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