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Unseen wrote:

Most or, really, all matriarchal societies are primitive. I wonder why.

Karen Lampell Endicott, writing in 1981, said that “simple” (i.e., nomadic, non-materialistic) societies (of which there aren’t many left) are egalitarian in general, and have egalitarianism between the sexes.  She also says that as soon as power structures…[Read more]

jakelafort wrote:

I would think that primitive cultures would be instructive. Or is that a bias on my part to assume that modern cultural overlays will be missing? No doubt there are innate differences but what may truly complicate matters is neuroplasticity. And that means that what may appear as an innate difference is a response to the…

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Why would nature create just one mammal whose gender behavior differences are not encoded and not primarily influenced hormonally? What evolutionary path would lead that species there? Don’t make this about equality. We can be different and equal and we don’t need a  Handicapper General to enforce equality.

Taking gender out of it for purposes…[Read more]

I would think that primitive cultures would be instructive. Or is that a bias on my part to assume that modern cultural overlays will be missing?

No doubt there are innate differences but what may truly complicate matters is neuroplasticity. And that means that what may appear as an innate difference is a response to the environment that at once…[Read more]

Those differences are heavily culturally enforced unseen. As women’s rights increase, women insist on making their own choices, challenging gender norms, living as they see fit and fighting the biases that keep gender differences so ingrained in our culture…miraculously we find all of those “fundamental” differences slowly disappearing. It would…[Read more]

Our brains are the same. The Venus vs Mars idea is Woo.

I think there are big differences due to socialisation, and relatively small fundamental differences.

Simon Paynton wrote:

I don’t know, there has to be a reason why there are mainly patriarchies and almost no matriarchies, and it’s not necessarily to do with “success”. Endicott (1981) says that males take advantage of power structures in society to impose their dominance over females. How this happens I’m not sure. In egalitarian societies…

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Our law of peace
Which understands
A husband leads
A wife commands

Nevermind

I don’t know, there has to be a reason why there are mainly patriarchies and almost no matriarchies, and it’s not necessarily to do with “success”.  Endicott (1981) says that males take advantage of power structures in society to impose their dominance over females.  How this happens I’m not sure.  In egalitarian societies, the gender relations ar…[Read more]

In a kind of gender-oriented Fermi paradox, somewhere in Camille Paglia’s corpus she asks if a matriarchal society is as superior as the mainstream feminists imply, if it gives its citizens advantages over patriarchies, then where are the successful matriarchies? Successful societies, to the extent they are archies at all, are always patriarchies.…[Read more]

I should add, she mentioned that she has students, whom she explains this stuff to, so I imagine she’s a university lecturer or a teacher.

I’ve been having a discussion on Facebook with, apparently, a woke feminist.  I self-identify as a feminist, and I agree in principle with most “woke” ideas.  But I often disagree with the way they carry them out.  This person is so woke she doesn’t know what day it is, although I didn’t say that, out of politeness: it’s not a good tactic to be ru…[Read more]

Indeed +1 for Ivy

Good rant Ivy.

I never used to think that it was so bad, but now I see that it really is. I used to think that people should be entitled to their beliefs, and that you can’t blame evangelical Christians for some of the problems we see going on. And it’s really just each individual person. Donald Trump has really changed that for me. I have seen how our cou…[Read more]

I have nothing but contempt now for the leadership of the Evangelicals. They are all liars for Jesus. Many are just white nationalists. The rest are too busy counting their tax free income to care about their neighbors. They are a disgrace to “ordinary descent Christians”.  But then again all religions get to that place eventually so there is no…[Read more]

He’s the antichrist if there ever was one