I think the point is that matriarchy looks different than patriarchy, even our understanding of power is colored by the way men wield it. The claim is that matriarchy has qualitative differences with patriarchy. “Control” here is the central word: matriarchy is when women are in positions of power, but it sounds like the idea would be that power would be used in a more cooperative and communal fashion, and thinking of it as control implies a patriarchal approach.
not just anarchists, feminists also should balk at sincere efforts at matriarchy, since gender equality is the goal of feminism, not gender supremacy
though I do think sometimes what is meant by matriarchy and what women dream of as matriarchy is more of a balancing away from patriarchy rather than recreating it with women at the helm (or even re-envisioning it if not recreating), that’s just not my read of these kinds of memes
it’s not really surprising lay people would have less literate and sophisticated articulations of their gender struggle - it’s important to read the context carefully, women and men struggling under the conditions of patriarchy often look quite different than ideal and academic articulations of liberatory politics. The default seems to be reaction - e.g. some men unhappy with patriarchy blame women for the problems and fester into cultures like incels, pick up artists, and the rest of the diverse mannosphere. Are we really that surprised women struggling with patriarchy have imperfect articulations of that anger and victimization?
sometimes what is meant by matriarchy and what women dream of as matriarchy is more of a balancing away from patriarchy rather than recreating it with women at the helm
But then they should pick another term from my perspective. If you just swap the gender in the term, I’d expect that the gender is also the main thing changing in the concept.
I think the point is that matriarchy looks different than patriarchy, even our understanding of power is colored by the way men wield it. The claim is that matriarchy has qualitative differences with patriarchy. “Control” here is the central word: matriarchy is when women are in positions of power, but it sounds like the idea would be that power would be used in a more cooperative and communal fashion, and thinking of it as control implies a patriarchal approach.
I think matriarchy and patriarchy would only be different from each other if there were a difference between men and women.
I also think you’re never gonna convince any anarchists to go along with archy just by promising it’ll be better if we put the right people in charge
not just anarchists, feminists also should balk at sincere efforts at matriarchy, since gender equality is the goal of feminism, not gender supremacy
though I do think sometimes what is meant by matriarchy and what women dream of as matriarchy is more of a balancing away from patriarchy rather than recreating it with women at the helm (or even re-envisioning it if not recreating), that’s just not my read of these kinds of memes
it’s not really surprising lay people would have less literate and sophisticated articulations of their gender struggle - it’s important to read the context carefully, women and men struggling under the conditions of patriarchy often look quite different than ideal and academic articulations of liberatory politics. The default seems to be reaction - e.g. some men unhappy with patriarchy blame women for the problems and fester into cultures like incels, pick up artists, and the rest of the diverse mannosphere. Are we really that surprised women struggling with patriarchy have imperfect articulations of that anger and victimization?
But then they should pick another term from my perspective. If you just swap the gender in the term, I’d expect that the gender is also the main thing changing in the concept.
I think they’re just gay and horny and like the idea of being dominated by a woman too much to change the name