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Feminism
We Threw Out All the Wisdom of Women
And now we don’t even know what we do not know
From the beginning of time, women have known things. We learned them from our mothers and all the other women around us.
An unbroken chain of wisdom stretched from woman to woman from the beginning of time until a couple of generations ago, when we abruptly tossed it out because it wasn’t making anybody any money.
Women spent their days doing very important work for which they were almost never compensated.
Women knew how to bring people together.
Many women had enough leisure to pursue a social life. They’d make friends with other women, and then their husbands would be friends with the husbands of their wife’s friends.
That’s kind of how it worked. Once you had a group, maybe you’d play cards or have cocktails or play croquet.
People knew their neighbors.
So many men depended on their wife to keep the social calendar, keep track of family birthdays and all that sort of thing. They’d do a little casual matchmaking, introducing their single cousin to their neighbor.
