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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Well, I have enjoyed your posts on this topic (as well as others). But, I will take a slight exception here, the "1950's". Today's changes and opinions about sexuality, privilege, etc. are engrained based on thousands (if not millions of years) of male dominance. Originally for some reason, humans split responsibilities between males and females.
The 2 sex model is primarily a religious doctrine and not so much a scientific one, and with between 65% and 90% (depending on which poll you believe) of Americans believing there is a God, it is not surprising that sexual fluidity is on an uphill path, that there is significant resistance to that change.
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Athropogically speaking humans did divide into 2 groups. Males USUALLY did the hunting and the females did the gathering of fruit and grain. That division of labor would cause the men to develop larger frames and muscles over anthropological time. And women developed greater skills in organization, sociability, and language skills. (men hunting just had to point....that's a joke). But, some females probably hunted and some males (maybe older ones) probably did gathering and cooking. Males were probably more replaceable (less valuable) than women because reproduction was essential to continue the species.
.........Now we are in a period of modern humans and our brains are evolving rapidly to take in rapid scientific and social changes. Modern life in an office may be more like the GATHERING and communication skills possessed by women than the HUNTING skills possessed by men.