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I have a continuous nagging suspicion that the "men as oppressors throughout history" narrative is only taking hold because our society has grown to value masculine traits more than feminine, and thus see history through a male-advantaged lens. Not sure though.

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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.

6:37 AM · Jan 22, 2018

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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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