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But that’s exactly what I am saying. They had different roles to be sure, but all roles were valued equally; and because of this power was more equally distributed. But the men still tended to be the hunters or warriors. Today there are more male boilermakers than female. That, in my opinion, is more a result of biological preferences rather than gender. It has nothing to do with gender equality.
My previous examples of pre-Christian Viking and Celtic societies highlights that. Both were patriarchal and warlike but they seemed to value gender equality more than the last few centuries of Western culture. What if there was no Renaissance? What if the Catholic Church had fallen? Sure agriculture appears to favour the formation of patriarchies, but patriarchies and gender equality are not mutually exclusive. The point is that Western culture could have had far a more socially equatable attitude towards gender, and we wouldn’t be discussing topics like this now, in the present day, with people on the other side of the world at the speed of light.
But that’s exactly what I am saying. They had different roles to be sure, but all roles were valued equally; and because of this power was more equally distributed. But the men still tended to be the hunters or warriors. Today there are more male boilermakers than female. That, in my opinion, is more a result of biological preferences rather than gender. It has nothing to do with gender equality.
My previous examples of pre-Christian Viking and Celtic societies highlights that. Both were patriarchal and warlike but they seemed to value gender equality more than the last few centuries of Western culture. What if there was no Renaissance? What if the Catholic Church had fallen? Sure agriculture appears to favour the formation of patriarchies, but patriarchies and gender equality are not mutually exclusive. The point is that Western culture could have had far a more socially equatable attitude towards gender, and we wouldn’t be discussing topics like this now, in the present day, with people on the other side of the world at the speed of light.