• Matriarchy • Patriarchy . Future (Graphic shows relatively recent emergence of patriarchal systems weighted to benefit men and suppress women) Homo sapiens emerged somewhere between 200,000 and 300,000 years ago, and for approximately 290,000 of those years, we lived in egalitarian, matrilineal societies. We organized ourselves around mothers and maternal lineages, shared resources without the concept of private property, and raised children collectively rather than isolating them in nuclear families. Different types of work were valued without creating hierarchies that labeled some contributions as superior to others. Patriarchy isn't ancient in any meaningful sense. Instead, patriarchy is astonishingly recent. It's a brief and brutal experiment that has only existed for a tiny fraction of human history. And right now, in our lifetimes, we may very well be watching it fail.
Thank you, sister Jules. Kristi Noem and Pam Bondi are but the latest examples of where putting trust in male overlords will get you. #Patriarchy (also internalized by 🚺) is a brief and brutal experiment that can be both challenged and transformed.
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#EndPatriarchy
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