Gender roles (usually binary, but not too uncommonly ternary) predate capitalism by several millennia. They also may have been well-meaning early on, but they were thoroughly obsolete by the Classical Era at the latest, so that’s still ~2500 years of being a hindrance used for pointless division and distraction.
“Common man”
It’s even infected our damned languages!
:P
Gender roles (usually binary, but not too uncommonly ternary) predate capitalism by several millennia. They also may have been well-meaning early on, but they were thoroughly obsolete by the Classical Era at the latest, so that’s still ~2500 years of being a hindrance used for pointless division and distraction.