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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Sep 2017

      Men's greater tendency to express anger physically & to argue the fine details of things that weren't to be questioned also a danger.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Sep 2017

      Women were seen as in danger of getting distracted from religious righteousness by things of the world & needing to be reigned in.

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    3. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      We can evaluate this many different ways of course. One is that the reality for most adult women through most of history was baby production

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    4. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

      ...have a baby, breast feed, repeat. Of course that impacts on what is expected and thought of those women...

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    5. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

      ...much of their adult life spent clapping when a small person poops. Yet more with baby brain...

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    6. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

      ...how societies then expect morality to play out is of course affected by that...

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    7. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

      ...indeed, it's not until very recently that other potentials women have were fulfillalbe for a large part of the population.

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide

      Men have had social mobility a bit longer, yes. But I was looking at Christian history - Augustine to decline of Xtianity as cultural power

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    9. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      Its certainly true that work patterns in agrarian societies are WAY less gender defined than people expect, of course

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    10. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

      ...and women are expected to be out in the fields at various times, and take care of garden crops...

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Sep 2017
      Replying to @gnomeicide

      Yes but historically (and I am talking about medieval & early modern times) women's roles would be more to do with housewifery.

      2:30 AM - 13 Sep 2017
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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose 13 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose @gnomeicide

          Which genuinely was a full-time job when it required making milk & butter & ale & bread & all clothes etc.

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        3. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Indeed - he medieval housewife was also a baker, brewer and milk maid. But the (few) accounts we see re. other professions cloud this...

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        4. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
          Replying to @gnomeicide @HPluckrose

          ...a chandlers or a smiths wife, for example, is (between child and home duties) also helping with the business.

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        5. Cab Davidson‏ @gnomeicide 13 Sep 2017
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          ...hard work for the farmers wife or the chandlers wife (or the farmer, or the chandler!).

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