| SvennoJ said: ^ (can't figure out the editing on this site) Men went on to assume that everything outside the cave was their domain. Yet as people started living longer, schools were invented and hunting turned to sport rather than survival, these ancient roles were no longer necessary. Yet it took until recently that the status quo was broken. It's less than a century ago that women were even allowed to vote. I would call that subjugation indeed. Nowadays we laugh over things like the Good wife's guide (which might be a mock up, but I've seen all that stuff separately in old books), yet when my parents went to school it was still normal to teach the girls house keeping and cooking, while the boys did crafting etc. Less subjugation, more indoctrination. |
i think that the reason for women casting off their chains from only about a century ago had less to do with indoctrination and intimidation or whatever and more to do with the industrial revolution
because as you should know life in the past was nothing like the life we experience now.... work didn't involve sitting in an air conditioned office in a soft chair typing away at a computer
work involved hard labourious tasks and as i think you would cencede women would have been less suited to working in these conditions for various reasons including that they are physically weaker and they can become pregnant
however when the industrial revolution came around pretty much just before the rise of first wave feminism, work got much much easier on the body and we started using machines to do various tasks
imo this opened up the work market for women and allowed them to become independent since they could work alongside men in various fields since work had become lass physically taxing
i don't think that people who claim it was because of indoctrination really understand what the work environment was like before we started using machines
