The metaphor being that men provided "seed" and women were merely "soil" in which seed was sown
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Hence the existence of weird shit about being able to make a golem from sperm mixed with mud
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The fact that this is a reversal of how important eggs vs sperm actually are to reproduction was fertile ground for 2nd-wave feminists
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So to speak
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The 2nd-wavers wrote a lot of mythology about how our ancient ancestors revered women for magically making babies out of nothing
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And when men realized women couldn't get pregnant without sperm they seized power and created patriarchy
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It's mostly ahistorical nonsense but whatever
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It runs into the problem that we figured out how breeding animals worked pretty early in our history
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So if anything it's the other way around -- elevating one sex over the other in human reproduction was bc of existing gender politics
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But yeah for most of history the idea that men and women are "common clay" wasn't controversial
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Misogyny was based firmly in the idea that women are incomplete men, not some alien other species
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The chromosome thing has really messed with the Discourse there in a bad way
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