Biology/Gender/Difference between the sexes/Humanity.

A thread in here got derailed by a gender discussion so I thought I would open my own. If you have an obvious bias towards one, please don't respond. This is hopefully going to be a frank and honest discussion about our feelings about the topic, not a smack down on one gender or the other. Here's where I will start. Through out most of modern history (past 500 years) men and women have been assigned roles. Typically men did the heavy manual labor aspects because they were physically stronger and it was always viewed as a mans role to do so. Women did the child rearing because they gave birth to them and also cleaning/laundry/livestock and cooking because it also was viewed as a womans role. Post industrial revolution and the virtual end of farm life, we had become a different civilization. Men no longer worked the fields but worked in factories. Men shipped off to war while the women assumed their husbands jobs in the factories during WWII. So much of life is centered around modern machinary/inventions. Chopping wood is now done with a chainsaw. Building a house that used to take 3 years with help now takes 28 days with a nail gun, circular saw and pressure treated wood. Being a housewife is easier in a labor sense of the way. A refrigerator means the end of going to the market every day and having to cure meat. A washing machine means the end of using lye and a basin board to clean clothes and diapers. A vacuum cleaner means the end of sweeping floors and beating rugs. Fast forward to today. We literally have a machine/gadget for everything. Our roles are totally interchangable if we want them to be. A man is no longer the braun in that modern equipment has replaced him. A woman is no longer the housewife in that modern equipment has replaced her. We could both exist without the other. Heck, science is almost there with regards to reproduction. A doctor in Switzerland created synthetic sperm and an artificial uterus is already in the early stages of being developed at Cornell University. So where does that leave us? Discuss...........

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