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View submission: capitalism's demolition will not dismantle misogyny.
There's a lot we don't know for sure, but the best explanation seems to be that the traditional system of gender roles (ie, the patriarchy) developed because it had an evolutionary advantage over other types of social systems in the context of the agricultural revolution. In other words, societies that instituted the traditional gender system (roughly: men are expendable for purposes of war/violence, women are expendable for purposes of sex/procreation) were able to outcompete their rivals and propagate themselves more effectively. But this doesn't mean that the patriarchy is *good*, or *morally acceptable*, or *the best social arrangement* or anything like that; it clearly isn't.
One of the *worst* explanations, on the other hand, is the conspiracy theory that says that a cabal of men got together and decided to subjugate women, because men are bad like that, or something.
Comment by OwlTimely9082 at 02/04/2024 at 02:19 UTC
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its easy to explain the way the world is if you just blame secret cabals for everything, I guess
the idea that patriarchy grew because it was simply more productive than other forms of organization and, therefore, became the system to progress into the future-present for us-is interesting, worth looking into i think; thanks for sharing
do you have any articles or books or anything like that elaborating on the idea?