Decky wrote:According the Engels gender roles only came amount with the advent of farming (Engels: The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State). You really don't need research or archaeologists or anthropologists to tell us what Engels has already put down as part of the Marxist cannon many years ago.
This is precisely what this article is suggesting. Before extensive agriculture and specialization, men and women were considered equal. It was only during the Bronze age that specific events arose allowing men to oppress women. The article gives the specific example of the first Chinese warring states period where the warrior culture became masculine rather than gender neutral, and the rest is history.
Congratulations to Engels for pointing out that gender roles are an artificial, burdensome construct, far ahead of his time.
In order for society to advance, we must abolish the last of gender constructs and embrace a culture of gender fluidity where the only restrictions are technological. If we fail to advance our ideals, we will forever be stuck in this dark ages of capitalistic ignorance where humans compete with one another and attempt to put themselves on the top. Discrimination has be a favored means of competition -- by putting a whole minority down, we improve our individual chances of success, but we diminish society and we move ever further away from the grand picture of progress. If we even go so far as complimenting those who do so, we spiral ever further into the tyrannical clutches of regress.