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Is there theory dealing with how animal products are female coded? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The animals themselves, not the people using it. A cow is the name for female cattle, male chicks get killed early, and the horseback empires were run mainly from atop of mares.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's gotta be someone whose written about how the material conditions of animal husbandry were repurposed as an ideological tool to control human women.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

the existence of males is only tolerated because nobody's come up with a better way to keep a large variation of genes in the same population. even so, many species have tried to rope males in to do at least some of the job of raising offspring (apart from spraying essentially free sperm).

humans are one of these species, but it's ... uh.. it's going about as well as you can see.