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8 names doesn't disprove "it isn't often". "It isn't often" doesn't mean "it has never happened". If anything, only listing 8 only proves their point. To disp
by freddie_mercury 2y ago
8 names doesn't disprove "it isn't often".
"It isn't often" doesn't mean "it has never happened".
If anything, only listing 8 only proves their point. To disprove their point you'd need to list hundreds of housewives. Possibly thousands given the number of patents out there.
- austin-cheney 2y agoDefine often... This feels like an argument only for the sake of hearing one's self out loud, a poor man's denying the antecedent fallacy.
- AStonesThrow 2y agoEntire books have been filled with home remedies, sewing ideas, and cooking methods. You could, perhaps, cite the editors of those books, but the "individual housewives" who contributed them would not have traceable identities. The ideas and methods were shared among communities, church groups, in schools, and handed down in families. Often by oral tradition and by illiterate people. In modern times, you could check the archives of Heloise, and magazines such as Good Housekeeping and Sunset. Columnists would usually receive hints and tips from readers, and give credit at that point.
- Suppafly 2y ago>Entire books have been filled with home remedies, sewing ideas, and cooking methods. You could, perhaps, cite the editors of those books, but the "individual housewives" who contributed them would not have traceable identities. Those sorts of things aren't usually traceable when men invent them either though, it's basically unrelated to the larger subject of women not getting credit for inventions in science.