Most societies and cultures knew not to risk the women because they give birth, you lose half your men, you still survive. Half your women and you suffer massive population decreases.
It's also why women were more in homemaking roles, because they couldn't risk being in danger, they were put to improve the camp/home. Thanks to automation taking care of those roles, they now need to imply they had more of a presence in men's roles than they did.
Not even just that.
We are physically inferior. I said it. And that is just ignoring the fact we are in a sub-optimal state compared to ourselves regularly.
Like you need zero thought about procreation and how it works (Which... I'm not sure cavemen really understood), yet you would notice that CERTAIN members of your tribe are a fucking mess quite a lot.
Essentially, at a simple level, if a man is slashed across the chest by a big cat, good chance he'll survive, have a few scars and that'll be it.
Woman same injury, dear god the amount of damage that could cause. Better keep them in the cave cleaning up the place while the guys that can run faster, use more strength and survive worse injuries and keep fighting di the hunting.
Really makes you glad to the first genius who decided 'wonder if I can make food here so I no longer need to hunt and gather' though more questioning the guy that went 'I know it's another animals milk but I'm gonna try it'
Were there women who were hunters: Yes
Were they an incredibly small minority: HELL YES
Most societies and cultures knew not to risk the women because they give birth, you lose half your men, you still survive. Half your women and you suffer massive population decreases.
It's also why women were more in homemaking roles, because they couldn't risk being in danger, they were put to improve the camp/home. Thanks to automation taking care of those roles, they now need to imply they had more of a presence in men's roles than they did.
Not even just that.
We are physically inferior. I said it. And that is just ignoring the fact we are in a sub-optimal state compared to ourselves regularly.
Like you need zero thought about procreation and how it works (Which... I'm not sure cavemen really understood), yet you would notice that CERTAIN members of your tribe are a fucking mess quite a lot.
Essentially, at a simple level, if a man is slashed across the chest by a big cat, good chance he'll survive, have a few scars and that'll be it.
Woman same injury, dear god the amount of damage that could cause. Better keep them in the cave cleaning up the place while the guys that can run faster, use more strength and survive worse injuries and keep fighting di the hunting.
Really makes you glad to the first genius who decided 'wonder if I can make food here so I no longer need to hunt and gather' though more questioning the guy that went 'I know it's another animals milk but I'm gonna try it'
Considering how dangerous dysentery was before modern sanitation, sucking another animal's tit was the lesser evil. The goat acts as a natural filter.
That's before you account for all the medieval peasants that literally shit in their own water supply.
Kinda sad that knowledge was not picked up from the Romans as they knew the value of clean water and sanitation.