#ppl act like 'men hunt and women are just forced to go gather whatever they find until the men come back with the Real Meal' like | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bucephaly · 3 years ago

Text

Stop using 'from the dawn of humanity' when talking abt things like sexism and wealth disparity and, just a lot of things. Start saying 'since the invention of agriculture' since thats when a lot of that shit became the norm

#wealth did not (or almost always did not) exist in pre agriculture cultures #there are some exceptions like in the PNW where some groups were sedentary while being totally foragers #but in almost all forager societies wealth was and is not a thing #and for the most part sexism wasnt rlly a thing either #ppl act like 'men hunt and women are just forced to go gather whatever they find until the men come back with the Real Meal' like #in a lot of forager societies the gathering was most of the diet #this is less the case in colder climates like probably in pleistocene europe #but it wasnt useless or a shameful job #and it wasnt because they thought women too weak to hunt! it was because women were too valuable to the continuation of the group #to risk with a dangerous task like hunting #i cannot stress enough how different life was before agriculture stop lumping them in with those conversations #AND stop using that term to lump all humans together! is this thing youre talking about intrinsic to every human ever?

24 notes · View notes