[Clayart] Men/women

[Robert Harris]

​And I'd add to Jim's observation that in the time before modern medicine
and birth control adult women were almost always either pregnant or
nursing.​ In Viking times (a relatively modern 1000 AD) the avergae
lifespan of a woman was 30 and a man 40. The big differential was due to
death in childbirth.


On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:19 PM, Jim Brown <jbrown1000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> " A more amorphous set of gender roles is more likely to succeed." - Doug
>
> Sorry, Doug - I am certainly not an expert in this discussion, or any
> discussion for that manner - but what you are suggesting just doesn't make
> good, common sense.
>
> No matter how far back we go, in all cases men are shown to be larger and,
> therefore, stronger than women.  And up until recent times - like the last
> 30 years or so, women have been at best second class citizens.  Throughout
> most of history, women have lived almost like slaves to those big, strong -
> and proud - men and it just doesn't make sense that they would stoop to
> letting women into their roles of "protector."
>
> Also, as we look at the "primitive" groups we have direct information on -
> the native groups around the world, the aboriginals of Australia, the
> people found in the rain forest that had never had contact with outsiders -
> every single one of these show us that there were very distinct separation
> between the daily duties of men and women.  Basically, men hunted and women
> took care of the "home".
>
>
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