Imagine if the tables had been reversed, if for millennia boys had been told from birth: ◦ How useless, unwanted, and inferior they were. ◦ That they were restricted to the house. ◦ That their only legitimate future was marriage, childcare, and house-work.
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◦ That fewer resources would be devoted to them than to their sisters. ◦ That they were not entitled to an education, a trade, or a job. ◦ That they could not do art, music, writing, philosophy, science, or research; that they were not allowed to publish or to patent their work.
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Privileged women could then hypocritically berate their disadvantaged brothers by taunting, “Where are your famous men? Where are all your great scientists, mathematicians, inventors, philosophers, writers, composers, and artists?”