RE: An era of matriarchy?
October 21, 2012 at 1:42 pm
(This post was last modified: October 21, 2012 at 2:19 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Why would being wise or advanced lead directly to egalitarianism? Why couldn't Atlantis (lulz) have been full of brutal patriarchs?
TLDR: Until you get specific, I'm going to go with; "It's good to be the king".
No, matriarchy means a society in which men are ruled over by women, it would be something of the opposite of a patriarchy. It isn't important what duties or roles are assigned to the respective gender. What is important is who assigns those roles (and enforces them). This is why it is accurate to say that we see societies which are less patriarchal, more egalitarian, more matrifocul, but very rarely, matriarchal. Again, because we do not find these examples it becomes difficult to understand why anyone would assume an era of matriarchy (why assume some over arching pattern when a single example is tough to come by?).
A couple of broken laptops and rusty cars would provide a much greater wealth of information about us than the artifacts available have to offer with regards to our ancestors. What else do you think I should be weighing in here, if the artifacts are insufficient? Intuition? I'll pass.
TLDR: Until you get specific, I'm going to go with; "It's good to be the king".
No, matriarchy means a society in which men are ruled over by women, it would be something of the opposite of a patriarchy. It isn't important what duties or roles are assigned to the respective gender. What is important is who assigns those roles (and enforces them). This is why it is accurate to say that we see societies which are less patriarchal, more egalitarian, more matrifocul, but very rarely, matriarchal. Again, because we do not find these examples it becomes difficult to understand why anyone would assume an era of matriarchy (why assume some over arching pattern when a single example is tough to come by?).
A couple of broken laptops and rusty cars would provide a much greater wealth of information about us than the artifacts available have to offer with regards to our ancestors. What else do you think I should be weighing in here, if the artifacts are insufficient? Intuition? I'll pass.
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