RE: Re: The Hidden Gale storms Crescent Manor...

From: Gareth Martin <gamartin_at_...>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:36:45 -0000

> raiders. Why is it so often that when men do this we think of them
> 'soldiers', but when women do this they are either
> 'invisible' or we think
> of them as nurses or 'whores'?

Short version: Because we live in patriarchal culture which has a tendency to undervalue womens work.
Even Adam Smith perpetrates this area by defining this form of labour as "unproductive" in his wealth of nations.

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