Binary_Helix 1 wrote...
Bekkael wrote...
Of course not. We appreciate the way of life that we do because of the hard work of the men and women who went before us. Women of the past were only dependent on men due to the societal rules which placed men in charge and relegated women to the role of breeder and child-raiser. I'm sure if women were seen to be equal human beings to men throughout history (allowed to own property, inherit, run businesses etc.) things would have been vastly different.
Women didn't work because back then work didn't consist of pushing papers in a nice air conditioned office.
That didn't mean there weren't vitally important tasks they had to manage. Child bearing and motherhood for example.
Bekkael wrote...Women faced the pressure of having nothing to recommend them beyond their vaginas and their ability to provide children. Women reproduced because they had to, and they often had no choice as to who they would reproduce WITH. I daresay there were fewer men reproducing because they actually had a choice in the matter.
No society ever lets women fail. If most of the men die that's okay. While women are coddled because with them a tribe, a city, or a nation, can repopulate itself within a generation. This idea that women were breeders therefore had it bad is a myth. Most males are expendable that's why less than half ever reproduced. It's a lie that most males ever had it great.
*Ahem* Let me preface by saying "bad" is subjective. Some societies definitely have it worse than others and you can't compare apples to oranges.
But here in America (where I live)...
Women have it "bad" when they get paid, on average, 7% less than men for doing the same darn job. So if a woman wants to support her house husband and physically evacuated spawn then she has to work twice as hard to get to where she would be if they were born with different genitals.
Women have it "bad" when they have legislatures who think, for some reason, it is okay to make decisions about what medical procedures they can and cannot undergo, and when laws like the lovingly nicknamed "Let Women Die" Law give rise to social injustice.
Women have it "real bad" when people start trying to qualify rape, what it is and what it isn't.
Women have it "bad" when people still subscribe to the belief that "woman work" involves being in a cushy office with air conditioning, and that a society that promotes that women exist at a quality of life that is sub-par to that of men is good because it isn't going to "let" women fail completely. I
Women have it "bad" when they have to work all day, and then come home and pull second shift at home because society tells them they are supposed to be, by gender, the nurturer and the housekeeper.
Women have it "bad" when people think it's okay to throw around terms, that I won't say on this forum but imply "sexually promiscuous", just because someone believes in using birth control, and when they can't get healthcare coverage for said contraceptives.
There is a whole lot of BS out there, but you'd be wise to wake up and smell the Clinque Happy because changes are coming, and women aren't just complaining about things. There are real inequalities in our society, and in the microcasm of our little gaming community, as a girl gamer, I hear about it all the time, but in the big picture things could get much, much worse.
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