11-06-2016, 06:17 PM
rexs wrote:
[quote=No. Nice pet theory for a moment's diversion over beers. But it doesn't hold up.
Most societies go through phases including matriarchies. We have no instinct prohibiting female leaders.
As we become a global society, portions of the population fall out of phase and that's stressful. And add to that... Well, some people are just stupid and easily misled.
No gender has a lock on being dumb and violently regressive.
This too shall pass.]
The glib dismissal is a bit too much like, there little lady, don't worry your pretty little head about such things. Everything will be ok.
When did we go thru the matriarchal power phase?
Seriously?
You can't think of (for example) one country in Western civilization that touches upon the origin of the United States and had female monarchs?
Pre-agrarian societies tend to be egalitarian and cycle through phases of male and female dominance. They weren't permanently matriarchal nor patriarchal. There's no perfectly enduring example of either one.