The most laughable part of the women's rights movement is the belief they were ever oppressed. Women as a collective have never had the oppression of responsibility for their and their families lives. They never had to worry about dying in foreign lands to preserve their lifestyle. They never had to go into mines full of toxic air or break their bodies in hard labor. The entire history of humanity is centered around the appeasement and protection of women. These tradeoffs lead to a vast dynamic where the economic value in a women was her fertility and a mans was in his resources. True equality would be the rudest awakening of women. * It is important to note the difference between women as a collective force and the individual.
Actually, they have, and it caused such uproar that it lead to the introduction of workplace safety legislation. Legislation that didn't gain any kind of traction when it was merely men at risk.
Yep, forbade any female worker from working underground and you had to be 10 as a boy to work underground. And of course they didn't frame it as a safety issue for the public, but as a way to protect women's modesty.
Lord Ashley deliberately appealed to Victorian prudery, focussing on girls and women wearing trousers and working bare-breasted in the presence of boys and men, which "made girls unsuitable for marriage and unfit to be mothers". Such an affront to Victorian morality ensured the bill was passed.
Because you know what's more important than preventing children as young as five from working a dangerous and physically intensive job? Protecting the chastity of women.
The most laughable part of the women's rights movement is the belief they were ever oppressed. Women as a collective have never had the oppression of responsibility for their and their families lives. They never had to worry about dying in foreign lands to preserve their lifestyle. They never had to go into mines full of toxic air or break their bodies in hard labor. The entire history of humanity is centered around the appeasement and protection of women. These tradeoffs lead to a vast dynamic where the economic value in a women was her fertility and a mans was in his resources. True equality would be the rudest awakening of women. * It is important to note the difference between women as a collective force and the individual.
Actually, they have, and it caused such uproar that it lead to the introduction of workplace safety legislation. Legislation that didn't gain any kind of traction when it was merely men at risk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mines_and_Collieries_Act_1842
Yep, forbade any female worker from working underground and you had to be 10 as a boy to work underground. And of course they didn't frame it as a safety issue for the public, but as a way to protect women's modesty.
Because you know what's more important than preventing children as young as five from working a dangerous and physically intensive job? Protecting the chastity of women.