My theory as to why men came out more privileged goes like this. Women have babies, feed babies. Men bugger off to run around and have fun, leaving women to look after babies and make the food and fetch the water, because if nobody does it everybody will die and all that effort having babies was for nothing. Men turn around, look at women doing the important things, establish systems of government for something to do. Women look at men gallivanting about, tell men to get back here and do something useful. Men change systems of government to disenfranchise and subjugate women so they can't make them do actual work. Some men recognise that there are quite a lot of babies now and go back to help provide for tribe, others continue farting around. Women think, oh bugger, now what do we do. Women and sympathetic men do not have time to start to change this until late 19th century, because busy looking after babies and keeping world going. Therefore, by my theory, if men had been the ones having the babies they would have ended up being subjugated, because human beings are such that once one group gets a little bit of power and a couple of arrogant tossers in charge, they will subjugate the disempowered group as much as possible.
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dancing_serpent
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Date: 2008-06-16 06:18 pm (UTC)My theory as to why men came out more privileged goes like this. Women have babies, feed babies. Men bugger off to run around and have fun, leaving women to look after babies and make the food and fetch the water, because if nobody does it everybody will die and all that effort having babies was for nothing. Men turn around, look at women doing the important things, establish systems of government for something to do. Women look at men gallivanting about, tell men to get back here and do something useful. Men change systems of government to disenfranchise and subjugate women so they can't make them do actual work. Some men recognise that there are quite a lot of babies now and go back to help provide for tribe, others continue farting around. Women think, oh bugger, now what do we do. Women and sympathetic men do not have time to start to change this until late 19th century, because busy looking after babies and keeping world going. Therefore, by my theory, if men had been the ones having the babies they would have ended up being subjugated, because human beings are such that once one group gets a little bit of power and a couple of arrogant tossers in charge, they will subjugate the disempowered group as much as possible.