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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Can't we just, you know, ask hunter gatherers how they do it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

We can, sort of.

Not really, as I don't think any currently remaining hunter-gatherers practice persistence hunting? But in the very loose sense that a lot of anthropology does indeed rely on studying some modern hunter-gatherers.

Isn't it wild to think there are still a few uncontacted tribes which are classified as hunter-gatherers (although they're partly pastoral and horticultural)?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

My SO has a theory that if the group of people lived in a harsh environment, ie. having to work for what you had with no guarantee of food or safety, etc, it was common for women to work just as much as men. Such a society needed all hands on deck, so to speak. But, when we start becoming "civilized", and things started getting made for us, (as opposed to an individual making it themselves.) Women and men start having diverging roles. Essentially, there's just not enough work, so womens role turns into raising the babies, to fill the time. Eventually, for whatever reason, "civilized" society just forgot about the hard times and assumes women have always been there just to raise babies.

Disclaimer: This is based on absolutely nothing. Maybe some random information that explain that women did "men" jobs too, once. Idk.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's called the neolithic revolution.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Crap. They just took it from somewhere else and passed it off as their own. Jerk.

Edit: But then why is this even being debated?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Eıŋtcint Siþıėnz a-ſ hæd ƿimin æz worıyṙz. T inu̇f v æn ekſtent ðæt ðı muıt bı ð beıſiſ f ð Æmėzȯn worıyṙz v ledjend.

spoilerAncient Scythians also had women as warriors. To enough of an extent that they might be the basis for the Amazon warriors of legend.

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