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I 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 vita
by mattcwilson 5y ago
I 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."