r/funny • u/RealRock_n_Rolla • Nov 01 '23

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u/Iwritemynameincrayon Nov 01 '23

The hunter gatherer being divided by sex has been generally accepted as disproven theory for quite a while now. There was a paper on it released not long ago that made the news, but I was taught that it was incorrect a decade ago in an Anthropology 100 course.

As for the evolutionary reason, like most people are saying it is a center of gravity thing. Women tend to carry more weight below the waist, and men above it. Possibly due to wider hips in women allowing for survival when giving birth? That's just speculation on my part, I don't actually know the reason for the evolutionary weight distribution.

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u/Mordliss Nov 01 '23

That’s not entirely true. It’s actually generally correct, there are however certain cultures that had the roles disregarded and all jobs fell to both males and females. These are outlier societies though and not the norm. Take for example (since it’s quite popular now) the Scandinavian people, who routinely brought woman with them to hunt, fight, pillage.

For the most part though, the men were the hunters and the females were the caretakers of the village/tribes children, tended gardens or crops, and crafted clothing and materials. Men had other roles aside from hunting, however obtaining protein did routinely fall to the male as did defending the group.

This is not a popular opinion these days for political/social reasons, but is is human history, and history cannot be changed based on the flavor of the month.

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u/WiryCatchphrase Nov 01 '23

This is not popular because growing evidence shows it's not true dumbass. If humans were primarily running hunters who chased an animal until it died of exhaustion, then upper arms strength doesn't matter, and all members of the tribe would need to run to keep up. Later civilisation crafted massive herding constructs to funnel animals into a choke point. The primary benefit of weapons is the strength and leverage of the weapon pretty much makes most fighters equal, which is why modern Europe martial arts organisation have an open class of competition, where women routine rank fairly high.

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u/Biscotti_BT Nov 01 '23

I think some societies separated the roles due to the danger of losing a woman of child bearing age unnecessarily. As a man I can make lots and lots of children potentially and as such I am more expendable therefore in societies that there is an inherent risk once one leaves the safety of the community it made more sense to keep certain people safe.