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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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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Exactly why I knew you were the one to chat with. Thank you, by the way. ‘Tis fun.
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Yeah that's fair, I forgot about the loser trolls. It seems super easy to counter with more science. Like, it seems theoretically impossible for any sexually reproducing species to evolve different levels of intelligence since they mix genes.
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