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[–]jet199 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's not unusual.

I'm pretty sure the anglo saxons divided the sexes into men with swords and men who weave. Or something like that.

Those definitions also work as euphemisms as well as describing gendered tasks.