Elle Beau ❇︎
2 min readSep 17, 2024

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Sorry but it is not organic at all. Men sat in religious organizations, in government bodies and other cultural applications in the past several thousand years and did invent and create rules and laws that have absolutely nothing to do with anything natural- and then they maintained them. You might as well be saying that slavery was organic because it was so prevalent and had so many aspects in common around the world. Paleolithic women were hunters, although gathering actually brings in more consistent calories, clan mothers, priestesses and then scientists, healers, judges etc. until this gets curtailed artificially. It’s revisionist history and the fact that patriarchy is always justifying itself that makes it seem like it just worked out that way. There were hundreds of matrilineal cultures until just a few hundred years ago. Before the 4th century BC Egyptian men did the weaving and women did business, including legal business in the marketplace. Some AmerInd tribes men weave and some its women. Cultures is a co-invention and gender is a subcategory of that. Clearly biological sex has an impact but there are tribes where fathers spend nearly as much time with young children as mothers. Many cultures have a history of women warriors such as the onna musha of the samurai class. Humans have nearly infinite ability to adapt and evolve and women have certainly upheld and maintained cultural traditions that disfavored them but it is all literally decided and then codified- until it changes for some reason.

I’m traveling now but you’ve given me a good story idea for when I get back.

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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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