Wow, this is a fascinating and eye-opening article by Katie Jgln...
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"Patriarchy Isn’t Universal or Natural — So Why Do We Still Believe That?
Our understanding of humanity’s past is flawed, to say the very least.
Still, some people like to believe we have it all figured out and cling to often simplistic and sometimes borderline incoherent stories that fill in the gaps between what we know to be true.
One of them is the story of male dominance.
It’s not that surprising that many people still cling to a version of the past that might’ve never even existed.
We’ve all been bathing in this androcentric swamp for quite some time now, not only thanks to the inherent bias of the first modern scientists, but many other things that contributed to the spread of patriarchal ideas over the centuries — like the rise of monotheistic, largely androcentric, religions — or all the conquests and colonisation that followed it.
Patriarchy has a long history of coming up with stories that cast women as inferior and men as superior, either because there’s no better explanation or simply because perhaps it’s just the convenient thing to do at the given moment.
And then it doesn’t seem to matter how many facts are staring us right in the face, we refuse to let these myths go. They’re all we’ve ever known, after all.
But insisting that this has always been a man’s world is just intellectually dishonest, to put it politely.
So, no — patriarchy really doesn’t seem to be either universal, inevitable, or natural.
The longer we hold on to those patriarchal fantasies and refuse to acknowledge human nature isn’t as set in stone as we once believed, the more we miss out on discovering how we could be — individually and collectively — in this world if we only allowed ourselves to.
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That's just a small excerpt from a beautifully written and superbly researched piece. I hope you'll read the whole thing!
FULL ARTICLE -- https://thenoosphere.substack.com/p/patriarchy-isnt-universal-or-natural
#History #Science
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