I love the idea that some guys woke up in the late 1700’s and decided to invent women just to be able to be sexist is a legitimate theory seriously posted by a scientific maganize lmao
Before the late 18th century, Western science recognized only one sex—the male—and considered the female body an inferior version of it. The shift historians call the “two-sex model” served mainly to reinforce gender and racial divisions by tying social status to the body. (6/7)
