MEN built this nation, honey. Now get back to the kitchen.
I work in engineering.
I agree with you, but men needed the help of women to build this country.
If you read Laura Ingalls Wilder, you could clearly see how the husband and wife worked together to feed, clothe, and protect the family.
The men may have brought the food back, but the women processed and preserved it. It is amazing what women did with raw food products. They used every bit, down to the tail of the pig.
Men planted and plowed, but the women and children also helped harvest and store the food. Men could not always hire help, thus the wife and her uterus and child producing capabilities were very useful. Mothers fed and cared for children, and if they were healthy and survived, they became the lifeblood of the farm.
I agree that the strength of men is unmatched, and that in today’s society, political correctness is a dumb attempt to equalize men and women.
But society in the “building” stages of America was very much dependent on the union of man and woman, and the health of the family. The man and woman had very defined roles that both were very important to sustaining the husband, wife, children, etc.
If women were of no consequence, why did pioneer men remarry so quickly if their wife died? Because while he was out conquering the world, he needed a helpmeet to care for his offspring, make his clothing, preserve his harvest bounty, etc.
I can see part of your argument, as men who worked on the railroad, logging camps, etc, often did not have the ability to keep their family with them.
Soldiers who fought the Indians in the early days of America came out alone, and their women stayed in
safer areas. But as America grew, women settled with their husbands.
There are things that men do well, and things women do well. I fully agree that the brute strength and power of men built America, but the women who lived with them and cared for their families were not reclining on a veranda somewhere with palm leaves being waved over them whilst they sipped iced tea.