Gender is a Scam - Part I: The Invention of Woman

Welcome back to Bitchy History — the show where we cheerfully dismantle everything you thought was “just natural” and replace it with the ugly truth: it was made up. Usually by men. Often badly.

We’re kicking off a brand-new arc: Inventing Womanhood. Because here’s the deal — “woman” isn’t a biological constant. It’s a cultural invention, one that’s been redefined, repackaged, and re-sold more times than Barbie herself.

In this episode, we’re tracing the scam from the color pink to the cosmos:

* How baby boys once wore pink and the Virgin Mary made blue “girly.”

* How philosophers, priests, and politicians all took turns declaring women “naturally” passive, domestic, and inferior.

* How science, in the Victorian era, put patriarchy in a lab coat and called it “biology.”

From yin and yang to Mamie Eisenhower’s pink kitchen, from Aristotle’s “misbegotten males” to Victorian pseudoscience, we’ll unpack how gender became the world’s longest-running con — one still being enforced by everyone who swears they’re “just following nature.”

Because if gender were truly biological, it wouldn’t change with fashion trends, holy texts, or who’s First Lady. It’s a cultural reboot — and we’re here to expose the production notes.

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