Re:Finland’s Hobbyhorse Girls
by mises on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:58PM
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The fact that you disagree with "traditional" gender stereotypes does not mean they have not held true for large parts of history. The reasons for this are debatable, as are its merits, but it is still a part of history.
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But if you actually read history, sometimes the stereotypes were the opposite of what they are today. Traditional thinking as we know it now was often invented quite recently.
From what I've read, riding fast horses was much more popular with men before cars.
> sometimes the stereotypes were the opposite of what they are today.
Correct, and this is the reason for which I qualified my statement. They do, however, apply to the section where western "horse culture" as is being debated arose.
I commented on some of this already, and don't want to pollute the comments too much. Link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19780759
>The fact that you disagree with "traditional" gender stereotypes does not mean they have not held true for large parts of history
I didn't take any position.... I simply said that for that argument to hold true you need to believe traditional gender stereotypes. Of course, as with every topic on this site recently, someone downvoted after being confronted with an opinion that made them uncomfortable or didn't exactly align with their own despite it being relevant