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#1454873
Doubting Thomas
Oh and I might add that it's the conservative right who have traditionally held women back and told them that they're just glorified birth machines who belong in the kitchen, and then they claim that women haven't contributed to society. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
10/4/2012 6:09:50 AM
#1454876
Hastur the Unspeakable
Oh this guy is a scumbag of the highest order.
10/4/2012 6:23:52 AM
#1454880
Reynardine
First of all, where is our "Sexists Say the Darnedest Things"?
Even Freud, who hated women, allowed that women must have invented fire. If we assume that, plus strict hunter-gatherer division between the sexes, then women must have invented:
Cooking
Pottery
Hot water
Brushes
Soap
Chemistry
Medicine
Dyeing
Brewing (which they alone did until the Sixteenth Century)
Grain foods
Bread
Food cultures, like yeast and lactobacilli
They doubtless also were the first to domesticate hens and cows, and dairy cows and poultry remained their province even in societies that gave all else to men. It was doubtless, also, in the ashes of some big cooking hearth that a woman discovered that certain stones, subjected to enough heat, gave off malleable metal.
In all likelihood, it was a woman, tired of straying afield to gather, who thought of bringing home plants and seeds so stuff could be grown near at hand. And the domestication of animals was probably started by little girls.
I am sure our sweaty commenter understands the importance of beer. More important is that he learn the proper use of soap, hot water, and brushes.
10/4/2012 6:43:32 AM
#1454882
Raised by Horses
You're posting on a site called "ManBoobz".
Your preachment is forfeit.
EDIT: Oh, and do look up Grace Hopper sometime. Y'know, author of the first compiler and all that. Huge leap forward for them thar computron thingies that you so like to use to harangue half the human race with.
10/4/2012 6:55:37 AM
#1454883
Cid Highwind
Otis the Sweaty has never been laid! Probably cause he's sweaty.
10/4/2012 6:56:03 AM
#1454885
Axel
Actually, women have developed a huge number of innovations. It's been traditional for men to claim female achievements or marginalize them. Hell, sewing was likely a female invention and we'd never have survived the Ice Age without it.
10/4/2012 7:15:18 AM
#1454887
Anon-e-moose
"Didn’t build the housing, hunt the food, develop the technology or fight the wars. I guess they helped with some of the farm work"
WWII. Rosie the Riveter.
Your argument is invalid.
10/4/2012 7:32:52 AM
#1454894
D Laurier
Agriculture was developed as an extension of the "gatherer" side of the hunter/gatherer economy.
That was the side dominated by WOMEN.
Women made it possible for men to sit around bragging about the big hunt ten summers ago, when they actualy got something.
10/4/2012 7:53:14 AM
#1454897
"glorified birth machines" ?
a woman carrying a child for 8 months is taking a fairly large risk with her own health and life.
What alternative is there ? Can you carry a baby to term ? can you build a machine that will do it ? can you use another animal as a surrogate ?
No ?
Then join me in a small cheer for women, without them there would be no society.
*YAY*
10/4/2012 8:10:13 AM
#1454899
fishtank
And neither would you, so shut up you underfucked hillbilly.
10/4/2012 8:11:00 AM
#1454903
JohnTheAtheist
You may be right, but of course we will never know because of the fact that you and your ilk have been oppressing women for millenia.
ManBoobz...how appropriate because you sir are a boob.
10/4/2012 8:40:38 AM
#1454908
freako104
You fail humanity on top of many other things
10/4/2012 9:06:05 AM
#1454910
Berny
I'm seeing someone who will continue to have problems getting laid. Your comment is a vast cesspit of ignorance and stupidity. There are volumes written about what women have accomplished in engineering, technology, science, medecine.
Their biggest problem throughout the centuries have been clueless assholes like Otis the Sweaty (nice image that conjures up)
10/4/2012 9:17:25 AM
#1454913
Osiris
Women would never have developed the technology to churn butter.
Sorry, Marie Curie was too busy discovering radioactive energy and inventing the modern world to hear the incredibly ignorant and stupid shit you just said.
10/4/2012 9:22:37 AM
#1454915
VioletBeauregarde
@ Scrappy B: Thanks...good to know :)
He had me fooled with that utterly tasteless post!
10/4/2012 9:34:15 AM
#1454923
Pule Thamex
"...women have historically had done about as much for society as mules have. Probably less, actually."
But you would say that, being heavily biased in favour of the ones you have a greater and more intimate knowledge of, which in this case is mules. You know nothing of women.
10/4/2012 9:55:04 AM
#1454925
Gimpo Pop-Eyes
There's three types of human, men and women, who take care of children and business, and storage units for rapidly moving canon balls who kill men, women, children and themselves and destroy businesses.
10/4/2012 9:59:08 AM
#1454929
Thinking Allowed
If women ran the world, we would be colonizing Mars by now.
10/4/2012 10:17:14 AM
#1454935
Papabear
OK, so you're a man and a boob.
10/4/2012 10:50:59 AM
#1454940
farpadokly
This is not true. Women have been used for unpaid labour for centuries, and when they were employed they were often underpaid and exploited. In fact they were employed for exactly that reason, cos they could be paid less.
10/4/2012 11:06:10 AM
#1454943
vladjames
Mary Anderson
Barbara Askins
Patricia Billings
Marion Donovan
Sally Fox
Bette Nesmith Graham
Dr. Temple Grandin
Ruth Handler
Dr. Grace Murray Hopper
Mary Phelps Jacob
Margaret Knight
Stephanie Kwolek
Hedy Lamarr
Ann Moore
To name just a few .
10/4/2012 12:15:26 PM
#1454944
dp
"Besides functioning as glorified birth machines women have done nothing to uphold society."
well, obviously, that's not the case. but more importantly, what's otis the sweaty done to uphold society? my suspicion is that he's taking the achievements of better men as his own because he happens to have a dick (probably only just, too).
10/4/2012 12:16:29 PM
#1454948
Osiris
@Thinking Allowed
Argument from ignorance, appeal to consequences and ad hoc fallacy.
I hope you're just trolling or being sarcastic because otherwise you do your name a disservice.
10/4/2012 12:29:56 PM
#1454951
Darwin
Ever get the urge to just knock someone on their ass and then piss on them?
10/4/2012 12:58:01 PM
#1454956
Amadaun
Plus, raising structures was for the longest time a whole-community endeavor, where everyone of both sexes contributed. So zero again, Otis.
10/4/2012 1:41:26 PM
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