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artis · 3454 days ago · link · · parent · post: When Woman Is Boss: Nikola Tesla on Gender Equality and How Technology Will Unleash Women’s True Potential | Brain Pickings
That still implies that women weren't subservient before, e.g., technology. There might be instances where women were worse off after some innovation or another but overall I think it's fair to say that technology has been neutral on the issue and, more recently, very liberating. There is no way to seriously argue that the washing machine is a patriarchal tool of oppression, yet it's not a design for social change either, it's just technology being technology.
You are definite right about that, and I guess the rest of it too. If we just assume women were treated as objects from the beginning then all the education, structure, and politics would simply be used to perpetuate an ideal that was already believed before these things were created.