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.
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