{"id":32976,"date":"2017-06-11T01:00:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T05:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=32976"},"modified":"2017-07-07T11:24:19","modified_gmt":"2017-07-07T15:24:19","slug":"qotd-the-role-of-women-in-pre-modern-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/06\/11\/qotd-the-role-of-women-in-pre-modern-society\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The role of women in pre-modern society"},"content":{"rendered":"

Traditional societies more often than not have less room for the individual than the Western society, which means that projecting our idealized intent onto such societies, and viewing deviation from our norm as \u201ctolerance\u201d is an act of provincial stupidity.<\/p>\n

The truth is it has been the Judeo-Christian tradition, flowering into the enlightenment coupled with the material wealth fostered by the industrial revolution and, yes, capitalism (in however small measure it is allowed even in the west) that has allowed our society to develop ideas of self fulfillment, of \u201cpursuit of happiness\u201d which would be considered downright strange in the past.<\/p>\n

Note, I\u2019m not implying that we\u2019re perfect. Being human, we can\u2019t be perfect. And if we don\u2019t get lost looking for an imaginary past, our grandchildren might look upon us as intolerant barbarians.<\/p>\n

HOWEVER I\u2019m implying looking for lessons in the distant and the primitive does nothing for us here and now, particularly when most of those lessons are crazy made-up stuff.<\/p>\n

For instance, what good is it saying that women were revered in pre-history, when we know that more than likely women in pre-contraceptive days and particularly in poor times and places were sort of a baby factory whose life was limited and confined by their biological function? What does it teach women? That merely letting go and daydreaming about a past that never was will make them superior to men?<\/p>\n

Is this what we want?<\/p>\n

Sarah A. Hoyt, “Inventing the Past — The Great Divorce”, According to Hoyt<\/em><\/a>, 2015-09-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Traditional societies more often than not have less room for the individual than the Western society, which means that projecting our idealized intent onto such societies, and viewing deviation from our norm as \u201ctolerance\u201d is an act of provincial stupidity. The truth is it has been the Judeo-Christian tradition, flowering into the enlightenment coupled with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,41],"tags":[262,968,1138,43],"class_list":["post-32976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-quotations","tag-culture","tag-family","tag-thepastisaforeigncountry","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-8zS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32981,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32976\/revisions\/32981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}