I could have linked about 400 more stories, but I think this can get you started. After that, you can do your own research, rather than relying on women to spoon feed it to you. And, it doesn’t actually matter what you think or believe. It doesn’t affect me one bit for you to go around looking like an uneducated dolt clinging to made up fairy tales. On the other hand, it is in your best interest to get with the program and come into the modern age of scientific understanding of cultural dynamics.
“The status of women has been a long-standing point of interest in anthropology. Contrary to common belief, research shows that the patriarchy isn’t some kind of “natural order of things” – it hasn’t always been prevalent and may in fact disappear eventually.
Hunter-gatherer communities may have been relatively egalitarian, at least compared to some of the regimes that followed. And female leaders and matriarchal societies have always existed.
Reproduction is the currency of evolution. But it is not only our bodies and brains that evolve – our behaviours and our cultures are also products of natural selection. To maximise their own reproductive success, for example, men have often tried to control women, and their sexuality.
In nomadic societies where there is little or no material wealth, as was the case with most hunter gatherers, a woman cannot easily be forced to stay in a partnership. She and her partner may move around together with her relatives, his relatives, or other people entirely. If unhappy, she can walk away.”
