Oh, it's a classic. Black folk are irredeemable because their roots are tainted by matriarchy. And he's still in the senate.
I'm still pagan, and I'm a feminist. I once bought into all the same books--I smiled ruefully when I saw you talk about The Sword and the Chalice. It's disillusioning to see the bias at work. But just because wild speculations were treated as fact doesn't mean they don't come from somewhere, and there have been matrifocal societies all throughout history. Some, like Jewish culture, are still matrilinear.
As with everything, the truth is somewhere between "women are evil and have never been anything but" and "women are the true rulers and men stole everything from them."
It's strange, though, that we seem to feel we need a pre-historical precedent in order to be powerful now. As if, if it never happened before, it can never happen...
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Date: 2004-11-15 11:01 am (UTC)I'm still pagan, and I'm a feminist. I once bought into all the same books--I smiled ruefully when I saw you talk about The Sword and the Chalice. It's disillusioning to see the bias at work. But just because wild speculations were treated as fact doesn't mean they don't come from somewhere, and there have been matrifocal societies all throughout history. Some, like Jewish culture, are still matrilinear.
As with everything, the truth is somewhere between "women are evil and have never been anything but" and "women are the true rulers and men stole everything from them."
It's strange, though, that we seem to feel we need a pre-historical precedent in order to be powerful now. As if, if it never happened before, it can never happen...