Thursday, September 17, 2015
I don't know if this is gonna work because I'm on my phone but hello everyone!!!! I found "The Plough and The Now" really really interesting. I never knew that women originally did most of the agricultural work, I kind of assumed that it had always been the dudes because it has been that way for so long. Like griffin said in the beginning of his post ( I read the first 3 lines because I had no idea what I should be writing) about the quote that history shapes what we become. It's amazing how one simple thing such as invention can change the course of history. I wonder if life would be different today, and if the inequality of sexes would be what it is if women had still continued to run the fields. Since farming was the only way of work for a while, since the women weren't doing the farming anymore, the only real other option was to stay home. It's funny because way back when it was always women that were above men in different societies, and then now it's basically the opposite. I wonder if the plow was the single turning point in history that made that change, and if not what other things caused it?
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