The myth of prehistoric matriarchy, and how it came to pervade academia

thetrollking · 2011-04-16T18:32:48+00:00

Good article. I got a little dreary eyed towards the end and skimmed through it, especially around all the talk about christianity and so on but good non the less.

TLDR:

The idea that matriarchal societies existed and were displaced through knowledge of paternity and the rise of agriculture is pure feminist bullshit. Even a feminist says so.

2011-04-17T01:58:43+00:00

I think the notion of some utopia in the past that we made imperfect is just appealing to people on a religious type level. The implication is of course that we could have perfection in the world if we just went back to that time... but the human history we know is pretty much a giant hell-hole of a clusterfuck. The stuff before that was probably worse.

I mean, if it was so great and so perfect - why did it end?

kloo2yoo · 2011-04-16T20:54:06+00:00

this is an excellent contribution, pending sources.

2011-04-17T12:21:36+00:00

I never understood this myth.

If you look at the actual hunter gatherer societies that remain in the world they are all extremely Patriarchal (in the original sense of the world in that the Father is the head of the family unit).

This is because societies like that tend to be extremely violent. Men die in hunts and raids against other tribes and women outnumber men in the actual tribe. This leads to polygamy and women doing most of the camp chores.

chavelah · 2011-04-17T00:48:38+00:00

Eller is a highly respected scholar and I love to see her ideas get airtime, but this blogger is pretty clearly grieving the demise of the system where men ruled their homes with the weight of law and custom squarely behind them. I can't bring myself to feel sorry that my legal and social status is not the same as a woman of the Victorian era, and that "cohabitation" is now socially acceptable. Good grief.

Title	The myth of prehistoric matriarchy, and how it came to pervade academia
Author	EvilPundit
Upvotes	21
Comments	9
Date	April 16, 2011 4:12 PM UTC (15 years ago)
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