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To: Neocon who wrote (76718)	4/3/2000 11:19:00 AM
From: Edwarda	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I don't know that I'd go so far as to say "only the rise of technology".... The availability of reliable contraception most certainly frees women from the necessity of being confined to childbearing without an ability to choose and to plan. However, technology certainly facilitates a practical equality in terms of realizing potentials.

To: Neocon who wrote (76718)	4/3/2000 11:03:00 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

as long as a pretechnological society must confine women to childbearing and domestic labor, and enlist men in military and hunting activities, and other sorts of heavy lifting, patriarchy is natural. Pretechnological societies relegated men to such roles as fighting and hunting not only because they are stronger, but because men are disposable: one man can fertilize many women, so losing some of the men would not risk the survival of the group, as losing women would. I do not see how this leads to a "natural" patriarchy.