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Originally Posted by Solumina
This bothers me, a lot. You can have separate gender rolls that are still equal especially in a hunter-gatherer society as those gender rolls are prescribed mostly by physical ability such as men going after the large game because the women can't carry it back (yes I know there are some women who would be able to but men are stronger on average than women) and women take care of very young children as men can't breast feed. Saying you can't have "separate but equal" is fine as long as you are talking about separate versions of the same thing but that is not the case here. Especially since segregation was very strictly enforced and in most societies (hunter-gatherer or not) there is at least a bit of wiggle room with gender rolls.
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Judging based on gender rather than individual ability will always be sexist, no? Whether the woman is strong enough or not, or is discouraged to even train to be able to do so, and encouraged to have a lot of babies and take care of them, all because she was born a she, and likewise in reverse (a man who might otherwise want a more domestic role) that would be inherently sexist.