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History of Feminism

Warpy

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5. Cavemen were actually very poor at providing

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Thu Apr 17, 2014, 01:20 AM

Apr 2014

Women did most of that as they moved around gathering anything edible when it came in season. Meat that men brought in was a fairly uncommon thing. 90% of a group's calories were provided by the gathering women did.

Protection was likely more necessary then since raiding parties from other groups were often after women and girls since possessions were few and limited to stone tools.

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So I found this website "The Art of Manliness" [View all] ismnotwasm Apr 2014 OP

I guess I'm not very "Manly"! NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #1

Innumerable fallacies ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #2

I feel strongly that most of it is indoctrinated. NYC_SKP Apr 2014 #3

Indeed ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #4

Cavemen were actually very poor at providing Warpy Apr 2014 #5

The protectors were often gone ismnotwasm Apr 2014 #6

what is a hoot with all this? i listen to men define masculinity and it is never exclusively man. seabeyond Apr 2014 #7

Just old-fashioned gender essentialism. Men are this, women are that. nomorenomore08 Apr 2014 #8