> I take personal offense at the idea that full-time moms are not doing useful work and raising children is something any idiot can do well.
Where was this even remotely implied? OP said:
> It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits - or many pursuits full stop
Even if you disagree with the premise - how in any way does this demean homemakers? What a bizarre reaction.
I believe the idea here is that suggesting any degree of “surprise” that human society has survived implies that the work women were excluded from was more vital to human society’s survival than what most or all of those excluded women were actually doing at that time.
> I take personal offense at the idea that full-time moms are not doing useful work and raising children is something any idiot can do well.
Where was this even remotely implied? OP said:
> It's surprising that human society has survived, given that half the population was artificially excluded from many intellectual pursuits - or many pursuits full stop
Even if you disagree with the premise - how in any way does this demean homemakers? What a bizarre reaction.