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> The places of men and women were clear before, now the current narrative is that women were oppressed and men were oppressor. Being able to buy your neighbor
by UncleEntity 4y ago
> The places of men and women were clear before, now the current narrative is that women were oppressed and men were oppressor.
Being able to buy your neighbor’s daughter for a couple goats and a milk cow seems pretty oppressive to me.
- alfor 4y agoWhat do you think of having to go to war and get killed, going down in a shipwreck saving women and kids, etc. The lives of men were brutal back then. If I look at history that is a bit closer, grandfather and great grandfather those were the opposite of oppressors. At least the mens that were honored were the ones that created the most and helped people around the most. Women back then had they hands full with kids, house to keep and probably older parent around. I think it was seen as a duty and pride of men to make her wife life as easy and comfortable as possible.
- kwere 4y agobasic Historian's fallacy, socioeconomics dinamics were a little bit different that we comprend. Most of drowries, bride prices, etc... were in most cases capital for the sustainment of the wife as she couldnt work as (much) men due to intensive child-rearing, not existing job opportunities, social obligations, etc... . most of "feminism" qualms came from upperclass enviroments of the early 20th century, and those are a limited worldview of gender dynamics. For example, poorer women didnt have the limitation to work as burgeuosie women declared,(as the social dogma shamed men who needed to make their wife to work) they couldnt afford to live on a single meager salary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bride_price