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Originally Posted by Galadriel55
I don't know. It's kinda like, while men work far off in the fields women weed the vegetable patch.  Men also tended gardens, sure, but usually if the man had other work the garden/patch fell on the woman's shoulders. |
Ahh. If I had to view a garden as ladylike, I would do so because of all the pretty flowers
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In places like Rivendell we don't even know where the food comes from.
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*Peers* You're right! I never thought of that before. They can't be living on fruits and cheese!
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I might view it a certain way because I have a very confused / mixed-cultured understanding of all this. Someone else, who read slightly different books or spoke to different people, might see it as the opposite.
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Indeed, I know quite a few places where farming is both a woman's and a man's job and where gardening is completely a man's job
