Otis the Sweaty #sexist

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Besides functioning as glorified birth machines women have done nothing to uphold society. Didn’t build the housing, hunt the food, develop the technology or fight the wars. I guess they helped with some of the farm work but no more so then the animals that men domesticated. So aside from children women have historically had done about as much for society as mules have. Probably less, actually.

I always laugh when I hear guys say things like, “If women ran the world, we’d still be churning butter”. Women would never have developed the technology to churn butter.

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old comment by Xotan

This says a lot more about Otis than it does about society. It points up that he has grown up in a society/family where education was not a high ideal. His culture is limited by the horizon at the end of his nose. It seems obvious that he has never travelled, and that his awareness of other cultures and places is simply non-existent.

I could give lists of women whose contribution to science, art etc. has played a vital role in the development of western society. But why should I bother to educated the indolent and unwashed (Well, he calls himself sweaty!). A simple look at Wikipedia would be more than enough to bring this trog up to speed. But has he taken the trouble? Evidently not.

And he misses the point completely that having babies is even more vital than helping on the farm, or art or science. If this biological imperative were cast aside by women, there would be no human race - or self-important men like Otis. There would be nobody at all! So don't despise the sacredness of carrying and producing the future.

Otis, you are a monumental wanker, and a gobshite to boot, beyond any hope of redemption from your ignorance.

old comment by Swede

It was women that churned the butter, prepared and preserved the food, baked, cooked, sowed, washed, made the clothes, mended the clothes, milked cows and goats, plucked the hens, gatherered the eggs, cared for the sick, treated wounds, etc, etc, etc.

When we were hunter-gatherer, women did most of the gathering, and when the hunters were unsuccessful, all there was to eat was the gathered food.

A woman came up with the idea for the washing-machine, because she was tired of her maids breaking her glasses and dishes.

I've never heard that saying, but I have heard "If women ran the world, there would be no wars". Neither saying is true, really.

old comment by Reynardine

First of all, where is our "Sexists Say the Darnedest Things"?

Even Freud, who hated women, allowed that women must have invented fire. If we assume that, plus strict hunter-gatherer division between the sexes, then women must have invented:

Cooking
Pottery
Hot water
Brushes
Soap
Chemistry
Medicine
Dyeing
Brewing (which they alone did until the Sixteenth Century)
Grain foods
Bread
Food cultures, like yeast and lactobacilli

They doubtless also were the first to domesticate hens and cows, and dairy cows and poultry remained their province even in societies that gave all else to men. It was doubtless, also, in the ashes of some big cooking hearth that a woman discovered that certain stones, subjected to enough heat, gave off malleable metal.

In all likelihood, it was a woman, tired of straying afield to gather, who thought of bringing home plants and seeds so stuff could be grown near at hand. And the domestication of animals was probably started by little girls.

I am sure our sweaty commenter understands the importance of beer. More important is that he learn the proper use of soap, hot water, and brushes.

old comment by WWWWolf

> Women would never have developed the technology to churn butter.

Spoken like someone who has no idea how technology is even developed.

In a functioning society, technologies are developed to address the needs of the users. Ultimately, who "invents" things matters very little. Someone came up with the bright idea that there's a niche that needs to be filled. Someone came up with ideas on how to fill that. Someone built a solution. Invention and development of stuff is usually a group effort.

But I do get the hunch that in your world, you'd not see the need to develop technologies to churn butter. You'd just keep women churning butter and think that any technological developments to change that situation would be a waste of time.

old comment by Reynardine

Tracer, women have been making soap at home for generations and generations. Hardwood ash, in prolongued contact with water, produces lye, and that, when boiled with fat, produces soap. I don't doubt that soap goes back at least as far as the Neolithic, when a pot of fatty broth boiled over into a hardwood fire, extinguishing it. When someone went to clean up the hearth, they found a lump of soap, and on washing the area down, they found it sudsed and cleaned. Lye soap is a longstanding product of kitchen operations; only commercial soap is recent.

The first soaps were used more for laundry and housecleaning than bathing, because they were harshly alkaline. Personal cleanliness can be gained with several herbs. I know of two, though there are more: Saponaria (lady-by-the-gate) for temperate climates, and Seville orange (Citrus aurantium) for tropical. The leaves of both will lather, especially in rainwater.

If you want to tinker with kitchen soapmaking, you can get kits from Pine Tree Seeds in Maine. Of course, the more disagreeable parts of the work will have been done for you, and they'll even sell you scents and dyes.

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