• IndescribablySad@threads.net@sh.itjust.works
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    Segregation of labor really started just recently. Go back 10000 years and you’ll find a more even split of roles. 10000 years is fairly evolutionarily negligible- we’re largely the same, aside from some immunity quirks, homeostasis tweaks, gamete peculiarity, and cultural differences.

    Pluck a baby from way back and raise it today and you’ll just be raising a pretty average immunocompromised baby.

    All of that to say, “women should be in the kitchen for their own good” is unsupported by an even slightly broadened perspective. I’m pretty sure Vikings aren’t coming to rape and plunder your 200 person town, bud. Hiding your wife away is just abusive.

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      Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSRs policies pushing more women into these careers.

      People don’t realise that these norms they hold as dogma are so short-lived and subject to change that opposition only shows them unable to comprehend history past their lived experience.

      It’s ashame they have to drag us down with them.

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          Shit dawg all you had to say is citation needed.

          Thornton, A., 2019. Gender equality in STEM is possible

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            Case in point, men and women are almost 50/50 in STEM careers around Eastern Europe due to the USSR

            around eastern europe -> contries in eastern europe that dont support this claim dont count obviously

            due to ussr -> ussr not mentioned in citation

            Anyway, this is a way too broad statistic that clumps together tons of fields which are actually pretty split. Basically statistics gerrymandering.

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        I’ve seen some people talk about that as the harmful legacy of the USSR.

        Mind you as a female engineer I agree with the communists about women.

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      During the golden age of the “American dream” where a man had a car, a house, and a family, didn’t the housewives end up relying on all sorts of pills and shit to not go crazy stuck in the house all day?

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        Pills, shopping, and racism. Historically, people have always numbed their minds to cope with the rapidly changing reality we live in, though largely with alcohol and funny plants.

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          I must admit a cold beer and some funny plants do make me feel a little less distressed about the world being on fire.

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    It’s crazy that people like this actually exist. Like don’t you have your own problems to solve? How do you even have time to pedal this sexist garbage.

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    they malfunction and destroy civilizations

    …much like politicians these days!

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    This man, and all men (yes, all) who hold this belief are actually weak men who are jealous and threatened by women. They need therapy to address the root cause of their toxic masculinity, not arbitrary power over half the population.

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    The mental image in my head is asking a lady the time and she turns and looks at you, opens her mouth to speak and black smoke starts billowing out and she starts shooting sparks at you.

    It’s easy to think that if half your population were eldritch horrors civilization would have a bit of trouble.

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        I practice the most unsettling smile i can, and do it in really jerky movements. Wheeze while i do. Talk on both the inhale and exhale while it’s maintained.

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          Does that work? I’ve tried:

          • Pretending I’m hearing disabled(problematic, I know)
          • Telling them to eat shit and die
          • Speaking really fast and fiercely in a made up language
          • Keep asking “What was that?” until they stop trying

          By far the most successful was when walking home with a bag of meal worms(for my pet tarantula,) I dumped them on his lap and ran away.

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            Sometimes if i nail the acting. Im pretty good at uncanny.

            I always want to kick them in the balls and then smile genuinely, but only ever did that once.

            You’re my muse re:worms

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              Nice. A kick to the balls is the only appropriate reaction if you don’t have worms. And worms are cheap!

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      Yeah and also the “civilization” women destroy is purely the put men first civilization - the only civilization they’re interested in

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      Yeah. I mean we keep trying, but they, kostly men, and mkst consistently these exact men keep getting in the way.

      To misattribute a quote to a much cooler misogynist: the creative urge is also a destructive urge.

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    Pretty sure the patriarchy and toxic masculinity is precisely why young men are having a loneliness epidemic and some are even doing mass murders, no thanks, dipshit.

    Egalitarianism is the future.