People were kind enough to discuss a twitter thread titled "Marriage as economic slavery" recently. It is now written up as a blog post, with more citations and details.

tl;dr version below

  • Myth 1: Men don’t want to stay at home
  • Myth 2: Women want to work outside the home
  • Myth 3: Historically women were not ‘allowed’ to work outside the home.
  • Myth 4: Historically men were not forced to work outside the home

Summary

Women with children have stayed in the home only in a brief exceptional period in human history which has lasted less than 200 years, the norm being both sexes working all waking hours. This exception was welcomed by women and resisted by men. It is enforced by laws against men, including imprisonment and public shaming, with no legal enforcement needed or used against women.

Marriage as economic slavery