BrokkenHarted Fri 30-Oct-09 10:53:39
"Again now, but say you were stuck in a dessert island and had a baby, you would look after the baby because you are the baby's natural bottle and s/he would need you for that for a while, your husband would need to use his supior strength to build shelter, hunt for food etc etc. That is all I am talking about."
Have you ever heard of a hunter gatherer society where the women are able to just sit around being a baby's food bottle, while the man brings home food? It doesn't work like that. In fact, in h/g societies there tends to be far less of a hierarchy between men and women, but where there is division of labour, the women tend to do the fishing and gathering= provide main element of diet, while men do the hunting= provide luxury items and additional protein. Women carry their babies around with them while doing this work.
So depending on the natural resources of your island, you might still find yourself the main food provider.
THis is a perfectly natural way of living that the human race has been practising for millions of years. The idea of a woman who only sits at home and contributes nothing to the economy is mainly a Victorian one, and even then confined to the upper classes; it only became a feasible model for most women after the Second World War.
btw if we ended up on a desert island, I'd expect to be in charge of the fishing and hunting, because dh knowns nows about those things; I could at least fashion some kind of fishhook.