It never began, it just always was. Likely due to biological differences between men and women and their social roles.
The concept that men and women are equal is fairly short lived, kind of started in the Enlightenment really, as it’s a derivative of the theory that ‘all men are equal’. The concept of ‘gender identity’ is even newer, it’s really a post WW2 thing.
For some reason, however, a lot of people now want to read modern gender identity theory and roles and all that onto history. This revisionist type of historicism has always been around though, often in the case that the author wants to ‘claim’ suprerority or legitimate for their ‘people’ by saying they were teh OG people.
I’m reading a book on Indo European and it talks about historically a lot of scholars try to argue that their native language is the OG language of Babel, and all the other languages are ‘poseurs’, so to speak. People tend to do shit like that.
It never began, it just always was. Likely due to biological differences between men and women and their social roles.
The concept that men and women are equal is fairly short lived, kind of started in the Enlightenment really, as it’s a derivative of the theory that ‘all men are equal’. The concept of ‘gender identity’ is even newer, it’s really a post WW2 thing.
For some reason, however, a lot of people now want to read modern gender identity theory and roles and all that onto history. This revisionist type of historicism has always been around though, often in the case that the author wants to ‘claim’ suprerority or legitimate for their ‘people’ by saying they were teh OG people.
I’m reading a book on Indo European and it talks about historically a lot of scholars try to argue that their native language is the OG language of Babel, and all the other languages are ‘poseurs’, so to speak. People tend to do shit like that.