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I just don't have words for this, it's so alien. I think a lot of historical precedent for keeping women out of certain things is rooted in the reality that wo
by Mz 9y ago
I just don't have words for this, it's so alien.
I think a lot of historical precedent for keeping women out of certain things is rooted in the reality that women are the weakest link: If you go to war and lose too many women, you cannot recover. It takes nine months to gestate a baby, no matter how many men she sleeps with. But, one man can potentially impregnate multiple women and your people are not doomed to extinction.
Those biological limitations drive a lot of social norms. But, many people don't really understand that. Instead, they kind of have certain instincts or habits or thought patterns, but they are divorced from the reasons the human race developed certain social norms.
We forget that women are the weakest biological link and conclude they are the weaker sex. And it goes bad places.
Sort of like a programming bug. You inject instructions without context into an environment they were not intended for and things go sideways.
That is probably not true in all cases. But, it is a framing that I find useful.