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I find it interesting that the photos of the men often showed them enjoying themselves while the photos of the women often showed them working, and there were n
by lasfter 5y ago
I find it interesting that the photos of the men often showed them enjoying themselves while the photos of the women often showed them working, and there were no photos with the roles reversed.
I hope that isn't reflective of how their lives were.
- bserge 5y agoMen's work was fighting, hunting, enslaving helpers and maybe heavy lifting. It's like the government and citizens: you do all the work, they guarantee your "safety and wellbeing". But technically you're kind of a slave.
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- acurate 5y agoThat's not accurate - there are photos there of men with weapons, with falcons, on horseback, etc., that reference their work. And there are photos of women not working.
- radu_floricica 5y agoIt's never a good idea to go intro gender conversations these days, but a couple of points: 1. there were plenty of societies where one sex had it worse than the other. From what I know of theirs, I'd be shocked to here they were egalitarian. 2. Women had what we'd recognize today as jobs, and in a tribal society those were just as hard as they needed to be - it was more or less an extended family. Men on the other hand used weapons, which suggest they were quite a lot more exposed to being killed. Women would have been harmed only in a wipeout, but as a man you're never sure you'll still be alive next year. Romance aside, I know what I'd chose.