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View submission: capitalism's demolition will not dismantle misogyny.
Misogyny has many aspects and roots that can't really be traced, some blame capitalism, others religion, others culture, biology etc. But for all these there is a precedent or an exception.
Some say it's because women were originally homemakers with the men going out hunting and women staying back and taking care of their offspring but I recently came across many posts on social media mentioning a study that found out that women were actually hunters as well. I'm really curious then, at what point was patriarch established?
Comment by OwlTimely9082 at 01/04/2024 at 02:29 UTC
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one theory I read at one point (in Humankind: a hopeful history which cited a bunch of-apparently-flimsy history books, so take my word with a grain of salt) was that patriarchy started around when people started to settle down in society-why? I don't know, maybe the balance just fell out and it ended up like that, but that doesn't sound very likely to me
i really don't think the question of where patriarchy came from is easy to answer but i might be missing some sort of anthropological perspectives or smth that make the question a lot easier