If you look at the history of work, you'll find that women's cottage industries weren't taken over by men so much as they were taken over by machines. Machines that were heavy and dangerous to use, quite often. Or in the modern times, traditional women's jobs are being taken over by robots that can type what you say ....

Think upon where the "women drivers" trope came from. Originally, cars were an utter BITCH to drive, and anyone who's had a piece of junk with all the modern automatic assists and hydraulics FAIL on you will understand this. They were hard to start, and you had to be a fucking gorilla to steer and stop the damn things. And this is why you didn't see skinny or female truckers until later in the 1980s or 90s or whenever they started making semis actually nice.

As far as slavery goes? It wasn't banned because it was "evil". It was done away with for being the last remnant of a barter economy, the last barrier to getting even the poorest bastards hooked on money. And yes, improved machines are making even cheap human labour obsolete.

If you look at the history of work, you'll find that women's cottage industries weren't taken over by men so much as they were taken over by machines. Machines that were heavy and dangerous to use, quite often. Or in the modern times, traditional women's jobs are being taken over by robots that can type what you say ....

Think upon where the "women drivers" trope came from. Originally, cars were an utter BITCH to drive, and anyone who's had a piece of junk with all the modern automatic assists and hydraulics FAIL on you will understand this. They were hard to start, and you had to be a fucking gorilla to steer and stop the damn things. And this is why you didn't see skinny or female truckers until later in the 1980s or 90s or whenever they started making semis actually nice.

As far as slavery goes? It wasn't banned because it was "evil". It was done away with for being the last remnant of a barter economy, the last barrier to getting even the poorest bastards hooked on money.