In my most recent post, I was talking about why modern books are so lowkey sexist against men.

While I did get a few good refutations of the book I was describing one answer I got really baffled me was in response to my observation that not only the male churches were sexist and that sexism despite being talked about a lot in the story is only ever shown to happen to women was: "Well the story is set in the Victorian era and a lot of churches were sexist in the era"

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Ok, I will walk with you down that road even though the author (since this is a fantasy novel) nearly gave a flying flip about historical accuracy anywhere else in his story but again for the sake of argument let's say the reason the churches alone where sexist was because it was historically accurate.

My question then becomes what about the other historical accuracies?

Back in the victorian era did you know that the vast majority of women abandoned their children because they could afford to have them or if they did have children basically used them as slave labor to make money?

So if the story is meant to be historically accurate why is every poor mother in the story shown to be putting their kids who they love and care about first without any thoughts of using or abandoning them?

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Back in the victorian era women of Nobel and even middle-class backgrounds would look down on poor men and treat them like garbage.

So why are 90% of the women shown in the story compassionate to the struggles of the poor and generally just want to help people?

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It was historically accurate that while churches in the past did put special interest in women since they gave birth they also had very strict rules on what men could do and sex wasn't to be taken lightly.

So why are only women shown to be sexually repressed while the average random guy on the street is always talking about taking a trip to the brothels with no societal shame?

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Why was it shown in an arc about how terrible factory work is that the vast majority of people working there were women "because they could be paid less" when historically men were the vast majority of factory workers and when women were factory workers they weren't taking up labor positions.

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Also, curios that this very same story that shows that women are the majority of factory workers also claims that due to the church's influence most women aren't allowed to work and have a glass ceiling on what they can do.

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Funny how that works.

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See also most depictions of the victorian era (who also ignore these inconvenient realities) and most depictions of ancient Sparta which was actually a mostly female lead society that sent men to wars In droves while staying at home using slave labor to do all the manual chores. (I guess showing a society where women were being so terrible is a bad look, especially when shortly after women took power the society collapsed)

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Also, this church's explanation those not explain the one-sided view on sexism the story presents. I am certain the there were plenty of sexist people of both genders throughout history.

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Also due to the empathy gap I'm also certain the majority were actually women.