Can we please stop pretending that blank slatists are revolutionaries pushing against reactionary biological essentialists who dominate society? You lot have been the orthodoxy for at least half a century now. You are the reactionaries defending the status quo against change.
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We would do well to remember that society actually needs health care professionals, educators and social workers every bit as much as engineers, physicists and miners.
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I agree with this, but on the other side you get people using it as justification for any claim because "biology." How do you revoke that without them calling you a constructivist or whatnot?
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Do you really get people doing that though? No one (of any serious repute) *actually* claims things like "women aren't good at math".
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They're not of serious repute, no, but they do exist. They descend on me regularly and tell me women should stay home & have babies and men should be the breadwinners. I just wish blank slatists were equally derided as cranks.
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Maybe I’m wrong, but it seems like the industrial revolution is a likely historical-cultural source of the dichotomy of male breadwinner vs female homemaker. Before then, both tended to work more or less from home in “Ma and Pa” industries, e.g., as farmers and/or artisans. No?
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There was still a strong division of labour among agricultural communities with men being out in the field & going to market if more than subsistence and women processing the produce & taking care of house, making clothes etc.
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Staying indoors was still an expectation of women. Lots of sermons telling them there was no need to go out and also expected to be at church more while men got some leeway coz needed to work in daylight hours.
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Sermons are interesting source material. As idealizing discourses they testify as much to what was not happening as to the actual lived reality. And it may be argued that the idiosyncratic social mores would tend to get more pulpit time than the realities taken for granted.
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Yes, I know. This is what I do. I have argued this in recent essays too.
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U didn’t add your brilliant last sentence though. Please do, I want to rt the thread!pic.twitter.com/OCucvqGmic
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Isn't this supposed to be sexist rhetoric?
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Who knows. I can’t keep up
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Are there really Blank Slateist's still out there? The final nail isn't in the coffin yet?
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They're very much alive and kicking! It dominates the social sciences and humanities.
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Being a workaholic is stupid anyway. I think men only do it because we're in a brutal competition with other men for socioeconomic status.
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If only our society valued caring professions the highest in respect to status and reward, then it would be men who would want equal numbers in those professions. The battle shld be about how we value professional activities, not abt getting women to conform to patriarchal values
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I'm in love with this tweet.
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Why does feminism so often promote in women the worst parts of masculinity?
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So you are saying pay gap feminists are text book misogynists?
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