Imagine a type of being that exists in two reproductive classes. The class that carries the young is smaller and weaker. The carrying of the young is time-consuming, dangerous, costly, and usually result in one offspring at a time, which needs a lot of care for a long while. 1/

The innate physical situation the smaller, young-carrying class is in means that its disadvantages are leveraged against it. This being has everyday maintenance work that needs to be done: preparing food, cleaning, washing, caring for young. 2/

Both pregnancy and the threat of possible pregnancy can be and are used against the smaller, young-carrying class, pressing them into service doing the everyday scutwork. Compensating this class fairly for the scutwork would make no economic sense. 3/

Without the ability to control whether they become pregnant, members of the young-carrying class have little agency. Those who try to opt out of the labor- and resource-extraction process are punished physically, socially, economically, because of their physical vulnerability. 4/

Over time, the young-bearing class manages by fighting tooth and nail to establish rights based on their being members of the young-bearing class. However, the larger class is still aware of the scutwork that needs to be done, and still doesn't want to do it, or pay for it. 5/

The solution? Establish the legal and social fiction that there is no such thing as two classes and never was. The physical vulnerability of the young-bearing class still exists as ever, but now can't be called out legally or socially. /end