I've wondered if women aren't like cats, seeing as we like them so much! You look at a typical barn cat colony; it's generally a cat, her juvenile kittens of both sexes, and her adult daughters and their kittens (and, perhaps, her mom and sisters). The males come and go. (My boyfriend calls them "wandering inseminators.") The teenaged tomcats wander off to find strange cat colonies to impregnate and males from other colonies wander in to impress the ladies just long enough to get them pregnant and then they're gone again. The females hunt to feed their kittens. They often raise their offspring communally, feeding and cleaning each other's kittens.

I've seen lots of human women who follow a similar path, right down to living with their moms and/or sisters and helping to raise each other's children. Men and sex seem incidental to their lives. Their primary focus seems to be on their children and their bonds with other (usually related) females. Is this the natural state of humanity, as it is for cats, and 'the patriarchy' is just an attempt to impose an unnatural order on things?