Confessions on Yik Yak | It bothers me when people parrot the stuff about human societies being “ancestrally matriarchal” because that usually involves a lot of misinformation and noble savage tropes.

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Confessions 17h

It bothers me when people parrot the stuff about human societies being “ancestrally matriarchal” because that usually involves a lot of misinformation and noble savage tropes.

Anonymous 17h

Like if you look into the history of that idea, this attempted redefining of matriarchy and misrepresentation of these cultures was done largely by a handful of German feminist organizations and activists in the 70s and 80s. And I dont really understand it? Everyone should support feminism. That’s just like, basic human morality. It shouldn’t require historic revisionism.

Anonymous 15h

it's an unfortunate attempt to appeal to tradition for an ideology that really should be avoiding that particular persuasive technique

Anonymous

OP 17h

This redefining tries to reduce the complex decision making systems, inheritance traditions, and religions of numerous indigenous cultures from around the world into “all these groups are matriarchies which believe in a great Goddess” which is just straight up untrue in most cases I’ve seen presented.

Anonymous

OP 16h

These organizations have also tried to redefine matriarchy from “women-ruled” to “women-centered societal organization.” Which like I don’t have that many issues with that beyond them trying to misrepresent history. But this has led to people trying to claim that “women centered” rather than “women-ruled” is the sole meaning of the word matriarchy when that’s not even the most popular meaning.

Anonymous

OP 14h

This is largely modern feminism unfortunately. Looking into feminist history, around the 1970s-1980s it started to attempt to redefine long-held, almost universally-accepted beliefs and, as postmodernism and deconstructionism became more prominent in culture and society, really started presenting increasingly abstract, counterintuitive ideas as if they were fact. Historical revisionism was often baked into this era, yes.

Anonymous

#1 13h

It feels like they took their utopian vision of how they think things should be, and decided “well that must mean things used to be that way”