Elle Beau ❇︎
1 min readJul 24, 2019

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Thanks for your comment. While I appreciate your desire to see justice done and also to protect your family, I do feel the need to point out that in pre-patriarchal times (tribal days, as you put it), humans lived a much more egalitarian and cooperative existence. Rape is a function of dominator society which is a relatively recent part of our human history — only about 10K years or so.

To begin with, the archaeological data we now have indicate that in its general structure prepatriarchal society was, by any contemporary standard, remarkably equalitarian. In the second place, although in these societies descent appears to have been traced through the mother, and women as priestesses and heads of clans seem to have played leading roles in all aspects of life, there is little indication that the position of men in this social system was in any sense comparable to the subordination and suppression of women characteristic of the male-dominant system that replaced it.

Eisler, Riane. The Chalice and the Blade . HarperOne. Kindle Edition.

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Elle Beau ❇︎
Elle Beau ❇︎

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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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