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This really feels like an over-reaction. > I take personal offense at the idea that full-time moms are not doing useful work and raising children is something
by xvector 5y ago
This really feels like an over-reaction.
> I take personal offense at the idea that full-time moms are not doing useful work and raising children is something any idiot can do well.
Where was this even remotely implied? OP said:
> It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits - or many pursuits full stop
Even if you disagree with the premise - how in any way does this demean homemakers? What a bizarre reaction.
- mattcwilson 5y agoI believe the idea here is that suggesting any degree of “surprise” that human society has survived implies that the work women were excluded from was more vital to human society’s survival than what most or all of those excluded women were actually doing at that time.
- xvector 5y agoThanks for the explanation. I didn't see it that way at all, but I can understand why it might be offensive now. To me it read as "It is surprising that a species so stupid/incompetent as to arbitrarily exclude half their members has managed to survive this far."
- spoonjim 5y agoYou’re talking to a user with a history of bizarre overreaction — you may not know that. Check the post history.