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Worldwide survey kills the myth of ‘Man the Hunter’ (www.science.org)

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Women hunt in vast majority of foraging societies, upending old stereotypes

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

An influential 1966 symposium at the University of Chicago reinforced this idea. Attended by 70 men and five women...

Oh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I've always found this concept such a weird one, like you need to eat and humans invented weapons forever ago... Do you really think that society would not let all genders hunt? Do you not realize that people would just do it, because they needed to eat or to provide for their families? Basically every existing hunter gatherer society that survived into modern times didn't have this kind of disparity why would you assume it's universal?

Sexism is so fucking strange to me