Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readSep 28, 2022

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Oh good heavens! The Pharaoh of Egypt wielded centralized power thousands of years ago when the only significant technology was how to get a heavy stone to the top of a pyramid. Centralized power has nothing whatsoever to do with technology. Any time there has been a king/queen, prime minister, president, chief, etc., there has been centralized power.

Why exactly should I "empathize" with someone who is talking out of their ass when I have expertise in this subject matter? That doesn't mean I know everything, but at least I can support what I say with data, science, and meaningful analysis. A lot of the things you say make no sense what-so-ever.

Patriarchy is about the concentration of power by a few men but even if we put that part aside for the moment, you seem to be under some weird impression that men deserve to wield social, economic, and governmental control over women and that they always have - despite all the evidence to the contrary that I've already presented to you. 🙄

In addition, sexual dimorphism in humans is about 15%. By contrast, it's around 50% in gorillas. There is no difference between men and women as far as emotions or sex drive. What century do you live in anyhow? Any appearance of such is entirely due to the social mores and constrictions of the gender binary central to a patriarchal social system. Up until about 3 or 400 years ago, women were considered to be the more carnal gender, distressingly sexual, and a constant temptation to men because they couldn't keep their lustful desires in check.

All modern science indicates that the difference between individual humans is much more diverse than any imagined differences between the genders. Other than upper body strength, there is no appreciable difference. What you take at face value as "natural" is largely culture. We know this because in other cultures and other time periods, people were organized in other configurations and lived differently. In ancient Egypt, pre 4th C BCE, women used to go into the marketplace to conduct business while men stayed home and did the weaving. This is just one example...

It's a huge mistake to believe that the social constructs we have now and have had in the past couple hundred years are timeless, natural, and the default. Actual anthropology, sociology, history, archeology, etc. show that this is not at all the case. You can continue to fight with "intellectualism" but that's just kind of pathetic.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

Written by Elle Beau ❇︎

I'm a bitch, I'm a lover, I'm a child, I'm a mother, I'm a sinner, I'm a saint. I do not feel ashamed. I'm your hell, I'm your dream, I'm nothing in between.

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