Great article. Thanks for providing citation links for examples of "pre-feminist" era women who ran businesses, were authors, etc. I am still interested as to why feminism got off the ground in the first place, why women weren't happy with some small percentage of them doing traditionally male jobs, why they wanted a mass movement. I suspect some of it was because the history books are mostly about the deeds of men, so jealousy. Another factor I think is because the inventions of men have pushed harsh nature far enough away from everyday living that women could do a lot of men's jobs because they were no longer so dangerous. And some of it is probably just women's love of drama, creating a narratives for themselves in which they get to play heroines without any real risk of loss and humiliation. You stated in one of your vids that Elizabeth Cady Stanton "liked the idea of women's oppression" more than what the actual facts were.
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