The Agrinautica

In cultures where women are barely regarded as anything more than cattle, they are dehumanised, and people actually believe they are doing them a favour. In the not so distant past this was the case in our Western world too, and it was the case for people of different skin colours. Actually this is the whole basic idea in much racism and/or sexism: the idea that the other group is not entirely or not as much human as the dominant group.