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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Your occasional reminder that men are not the default humans and that women are not necessarily victims of cultural conditioning or doing life wrong if we don't make the exact same choices as men do in the exact same numbers.
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If you want to convince women we should favour jobs which focus on things rather than people or that we should care less about work/life balance & more about raw income, at least put forward a better argument than 'that's what men do.' Otherwise, accept women's choices as valid.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @Trunkulent @HPluckrose
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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Replying to @kareem_sabri @Trunkulent
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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Replying to @HPluckrose @Trunkulent
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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Agreed, the labor was differentiated. But both were still laboring & co-contributing to household production. (In fact, the children were laborers as well.) So the novel element is, ironically, how conservatives now valorize non-working motherhood as if it’s a timeless role.
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The idea that mothers were devoted to their children certainly is a myth. Because they were so likely to die, it was essential not to get attached until they were about 10.
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