RE: Do you believe in marriage?
October 21, 2012 at 11:07 am
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2012 at 11:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Probably deserves it's own thread, however......
That we find examples of societies where inheritance can be (or is exclusively) aligned along the maternal line does not warrant a conclusion of matriarchy, let alone "an era of matriarchy".
Fertility is powerful. Androgeny is "mystical"..... What about a King seems matriarchal to you?
The trouble is that we just can't find evidence of any era of matriarchy (or any of the other attendant assumed attributes when we find an example of what -might- have been a matriarchy, or at least a more egalitarian society). Whatever hatred you see towards women is much more likely a product of the cultures general level of home grown misogyny than any effect of some prehistoric coup d'etat.
That we find examples of societies where inheritance can be (or is exclusively) aligned along the maternal line does not warrant a conclusion of matriarchy, let alone "an era of matriarchy".
Fertility is powerful. Androgeny is "mystical"..... What about a King seems matriarchal to you?
The trouble is that we just can't find evidence of any era of matriarchy (or any of the other attendant assumed attributes when we find an example of what -might- have been a matriarchy, or at least a more egalitarian society). Whatever hatred you see towards women is much more likely a product of the cultures general level of home grown misogyny than any effect of some prehistoric coup d'etat.
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