I think I have read this post before, but rereading now thanks to today’s post. Your thoughts on women’s relationships to “blood ties” reminds me of a book I read last year that mentioned how the male and female representatives of a species evolve together for mutual survival (obviously) but also in opposition to one another, which had not occurred to me before. This was very obvious this morning as I watched male ducks fighting in the pond over a mate, who then also fought back against the victor. Evolution can have ugly consequences for one sex or the other.
It might be more fundamental that survival itself matters more than modern notions of equality, but I think the latter notion springs from the realization that the former has left many victims along the way.
"It was actually a result of new technology (invented and manufactured by men). "
We're saying the same thing. 19th Century liberalism and new technology went hand-in-hand. Which one created the other is an interesting concept to consider.
But....
I don't like two things about your comment: prefacing the preceding sentence with "actually" (words mean a lot to me, and the word "actually" used here is condescending--as if that didn't occur to me) but mostly exploiting my 'Stack as your personal soapbox.
Here's an internet etiquette lesson: put a brief comment and link to your own 'Stack. Put up your own post as a response to mine. That's fine. Putting a goddamned POST on my 'Stack is not. You could also go on to your heart's content in the "Notes" section.
I'm leaving the comment up, but you won't be able to comment here further. Stay in your own lane.
I think I have read this post before, but rereading now thanks to today’s post. Your thoughts on women’s relationships to “blood ties” reminds me of a book I read last year that mentioned how the male and female representatives of a species evolve together for mutual survival (obviously) but also in opposition to one another, which had not occurred to me before. This was very obvious this morning as I watched male ducks fighting in the pond over a mate, who then also fought back against the victor. Evolution can have ugly consequences for one sex or the other.
It might be more fundamental that survival itself matters more than modern notions of equality, but I think the latter notion springs from the realization that the former has left many victims along the way.
"It was actually a result of new technology (invented and manufactured by men). "
We're saying the same thing. 19th Century liberalism and new technology went hand-in-hand. Which one created the other is an interesting concept to consider.
But....
I don't like two things about your comment: prefacing the preceding sentence with "actually" (words mean a lot to me, and the word "actually" used here is condescending--as if that didn't occur to me) but mostly exploiting my 'Stack as your personal soapbox.
Here's an internet etiquette lesson: put a brief comment and link to your own 'Stack. Put up your own post as a response to mine. That's fine. Putting a goddamned POST on my 'Stack is not. You could also go on to your heart's content in the "Notes" section.
I'm leaving the comment up, but you won't be able to comment here further. Stay in your own lane.