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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Did women also hunt? Yes.

"As much as men"?

No, beyond any shadow of doubt. Stop trying to white wash over history and verifiable evidence to try and push your personal agenda of stoking culture-wars.

Unless we're talking about tribes where the men took care of the children, the above statement is exaggerated at best and borders on anti-history/anti-anthropology nonsense at worst.

You might as well post that the men spent as much time taking care of the children than the women. And if you can admit that is false for the majority of human history, then you can clearly see how this being false also disqualifies the "women spent as much time hunting" statement.

Again, there is no debate on the fact that many women were great hunters and not just gatherers, but you also can't deny that most of the women took care of the kids.

Looks like I took the bait, didn't I...smh lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeaaah... the whole "We were matriarchs!" myth...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

What if I were to tell you that the word "some" was implied instead of the "all" that you decided was the implication instead?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Edit: understood the misunderstanding. I read the meme as "All", instead of "some".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

The only thing that might predispose women is when they get pregnant. Most forms of hunting don't require excessive strength. This is not speculation, prehistoric people do not give a shit about your value system or how it imposes itself on science. Animals in animal world be animals.

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