I really don't understand premodern fetishists. I'd be dead at least 8 times already if it weren't for modern medicine. Not that I'd ever have been born because my father was premature at 1lb and my mother was in a fire as a child and needed skin grafts to survive.
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It's no good saying slavery, colonialism, high infant mortality, oppression of women & LGBTs happened in modern era so it's bad. That's to miss that they happened in every other era. Look at the one that worked its way out of them. Don't undervalue this unless you want to go back
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While I agree that pre-modernity was a shithole, I do prefer their attitudes towards parenting and love. Today's sort irritates me to know end, especially when it encroaches on my favorite watering holes as hospitality embraces families above all else.
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You prefer not being able to love your children and having to get married?
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I'm not a big fan of "love" as the basis for much of anything, least of all commitments that last decades. I find obligation, ruthlessly enforced by society and law, with clear boundaries for breaks and breathers and even dismissal, far more appealing.
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OK. I prefer my children to live and to be able to choose my partner and leave him or her if I am unhappy.
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And we've built up a mighty social support structure so parents could pursue their happiness. Often at the expense of non-parents.
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Women, until recently, spent their fertile years pregnant or nursing and were a hundred times more likely to die from childbirth than today. Perhaps, misogyny exists because it will take more than 200 yrs to escape the gravitational pull of a fact that existed for a 100,000 yrs.
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I don't see why that fact should result in misogyny.
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Parents related to children differently because kids died so early and regularly. Men related differently to women, emotionally, educationally etc.. because they were pregnant, nursing or dying regularly. (Misogyny perhaps wasn’t the right term, ‘gender discrimination’ better?)
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Easy to imagine if you look at your own ancestors. My g-g grandmother had 12 pregnancies, 6 survived to age 20.
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Three of Darwin’s 10 children died in childhood! Less than 200 years ago.
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Most women wouldn't have 15 pregnancies. A woman had a 1 in 20 chance of dying in childbirth. The probability of dying in childbirth by the 14th was more than half.
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From what I know, parents centuries ago seemed to be a lot less attached to newborn babies, perhaps because of this. In Korea, they celebrate if a baby makes it out of the danger zone (first nine months) as "begill".
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