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What do you mean obsolete, I've got an Alewife right here next to me.
by purplezooey 7y ago
What do you mean obsolete, I've got an Alewife right here next to me.
- mcv 7y agoThat one struck me too. Ale and beer are still being made, and I'm sure there are plenty of women doing that. Still, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alewife_(trade) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alewife_(trade) is mostly about the historical and outdated notions of the trade. In the distant past, many trades were seen as either male or female trades, and brewer is one that started out as a trade for women, and later became a trade specifically for men (before finally, in modern times, opening up to everybody). It's really the notion that professions need to be for a specific gender that's obsolete here.