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In reply to the discussion: We need to teach our daughters to know the difference between: [View all]ancianita
(43,302 posts)do not pay what should be paid for. The only reason they 'get away' with it is because women will not fight them for half the wealth. Women cope because they're basically peaceful and not competitive to the point of force.
Perhaps it's their adaptivity to oppression that continues it, but it's not they who are responsible for not getting their fair share of wealth. If they give their labor, it's based on the understood threat of force shown by men's win/lose competition for control of anything they value, whether food, currency, children or resources.
Men's historical oppressions are based on their assumptions that, in a relationship, they get something for nothing or they refuse to give anything. That is a 'relationship economy,' no matter what the 'system.' Iroquois, Western, you name it. The codes you listed show that men just up and 'take authority.' It's only when women are actually doing hunting-gathering that they get control of any wealth accrued thereby.