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In reply to the discussion: Where have societies' views of women come from? [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)12. No, I haven't done a scientific study. That was my opinion, based on things
I've read over the years.
Plus, you can use common sense, and look at age old, backwards cultures that exist today.
In a culture where most things depend on strength, the strong rule. And women being saddled with a nine month pregnancy would be very vulnerable, not be able to provide for themselves even as much as non-pregnant women. Even in old cultures now, women are reliant on the men to provide for them and their children. It's probably the case that men did not even realize that they were the cause of hte pregnancies in cave man days. All anyone knew is that women had babies.
Slavery has always existed, as far as we know. The strong have always tried to enslave the weaker. Whether people or animals.
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the poster to whom you responded is one seriously dedicated feminist, and probably, as I am,
niyad
Apr 2013
#13
True, I suppose. But that was a new idea at the time. Very modern and a new way of thinking
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#11
No, I haven't done a scientific study. That was my opinion, based on things
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#12
^This. When survival depended on brute strength, a woman needed a man to survive more than a
Squinch
Apr 2013
#80
where does it come from? the abrahamic, patriarchal religions, to start (meaning, christianity,
niyad
Apr 2013
#15
I read it many years ago, thought I still had a copy somewhere, but I dont. Saw Riane in
niyad
Apr 2013
#37
will have to order that one, as well. thank you. that one I know is not on my shelves.
niyad
Apr 2013
#87
Good post. I would add that before war and settled communities came an ecological barrier that
byeya
Apr 2013
#56
Genetically, humans are slightly closer to common chimps than bonobos, I think. When a bonobo female
byeya
Apr 2013
#53
There are still matriarchal societies today. The Mosuo in China come to mind
riderinthestorm
Apr 2013
#35
The anthropologist Marvin Harris showed that the more militaristic a society was, the worse females
byeya
Apr 2013
#41
Thomas Jefferson who wrote "All MEN are created equal" and left out 76% of the country
graham4anything
Apr 2013
#51
You're asking for a single source, for one of human society's most complex constructs?
Scootaloo
Apr 2013
#78