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human
Whoever wrote it obviously never lived in a rural area, no farm has ever, ever, EVER considered girls useless. Like wtf? Girls on farms do a shit ton of labour, always have, always will. This sounds like a quote equivalent of pissing in the wind.
gpt
I fully agree with this. People get the misconception about women in the past, because most of history was written about and for the royalty, and even then, it's extraordinarily exaggerated. Women were treated less by royalty because they couldn't pass on the dynastic line, but were still incredibly important as a way to form an alliance. And these past rulers weren't heartless bastards, they still loved their kids. But aside from the 1% of royalty, there were peasants who would need plenty of kids of either sex to help on the farm. Women were the homemakers in a time where that called for an incredible amount of physical labor. In fact, since plenty of young men from 14 and up would be forced or willingly go into military service for their lords, women ended up doing a lot more of the work we incorrectly label as men's jobs today. These were subsistence farmers, who harvested food for themselves then had to give a pretty large chunk to their lords as their lordly right.  They didn't have the "privilege" (quotations because it's not a good thing) of sexism.