Enter your username and password.
-
posts about #matriarchy more →
Mother-Lovin'
In Chinese "Matriarchal" Society, Women Do All The Work
| posts about #matriarchy more → |
Mother-Lovin' |
In Chinese "Matriarchal" Society, Women Do All The Work |
11/16/09
11/16/09
11/16/09
@shnuguel: There are some feminists who believe that the words and expressions we use literally exclude women out of history, dialogue, etc.
As in referring to men and women as man or mankind, wo(man) becomes womyn, women becomes womin, history becomes herstory. Having balls v. having ovaries, sissy v. being man enough, and it goes on and on and on.
I think they have a point, but I find it tiresome and tedious to change vocab and spelling. However, since perusing Jezebel, I've added clitzpah for chutzpah. That's too fun not to say. ;) #herstory
11/16/09
Though, like you, there are some substitutions I now use. "Clit on" (like "hard on") for female arousal. "Jilling off" instead of "jacking off," and "Grow some tits" instead of "grow some balls." (Or, my personal variation on that, "You don't have the tits for it!") #herstory
11/16/09
11/16/09
And I'm stealing "clitzpah." #herstory
11/16/09
It makes me feel like i'm in some damn sci fi novel with where everything is spylled wyth a y and the characters are named Bronwyn, Oewyn and everyone is a druid with a pet dragon. *%)@%
/end rant #herstory
11/16/09
11/16/09
11/16/09
11/16/09
11/16/09
PS it took me no less that 6 tries to spell that. #herstory
11/16/09
As much as I respect/admire her, I secretly can never forgive her for not doing anything when I told her that her sister's husband molested me. And so he did it again.
I hate Mother's Day.
...I don't want to have children because I'm afraid of "accidentally" being a bad mother like mine was.
Sorry for taking over your post.
*seethe, seethe*
11/16/09
But I don't think you have to worry about being a bad mother like yours was. You may not be perfect—no one is!—but Lord knows you won't make the same (awful, awful) mistake that your mom made.
*hug* #herstory
06/26/09
06/26/09
My mother's ethnic group is historically exactly like this (even right down to the word for father being more like uncle and your actual biological father being just kind of a sperm donor). But what I think people miss is that as much as this isn't a perfect system that gives women total empowerment it is one that treats men as disposable. What that means is that, yes the women are stuck doing all the work and the men are treated like children and babied and coddled, but they are also regarded as capable and decision-making is the domain of a woman and her relatives.
What also happens at least with my mother's people is that age becomes an enrichment for a woman not a demerit. The older you are as a woman the more social standing you have and so there is no focus on youth as the only source of beauty and beauty as the only source of power.
06/26/09
06/26/09
Actually, when I read this article last week I thought the whole arrangement sounded kinda cool. My extended family is totally matriarchal: women do the child-rearing and drudgework (like washing dishes and generally keeping house) but the work is held in higher regard. There's a lot to be said for that perspective. My grandfather worked, but he turned over his whole salary to my grandmother, who gave him an allowance, and then directed the rest to schooling the kids and feeding the family and from what I hear generally deferred to her in a lot of decision-making (domestic and otherwise).
Just sayin'.
06/26/09
06/26/09
For example, he mentions that the men get to sleep with a different woman every night, but doesn't go into what makes up women's sexual decision making. If the men are sleeping around, the women must be also, which he admits later in the article but doesn't really cast as a benefit.
The wiki article paints a much different picture of a matrilineal society ruled by a noble class with serial monogamy rather than one night stands. [en.wikipedia.org]
Nothing this guys says seems that noteworthy or original, I assume he's just better at PR than your average academic with a nuanced view of things.
Honestly, what it reminds me the most of is super religious Judaism. Lineage is traced through the female line and men aren't as involved in the day to day running of things.
06/26/09
That's a woman's world.
06/26/09
06/26/09
[forums.randi.org]
[forums.randi.org]
[www.mosuoproject.org]
06/26/09
06/26/09
06/26/09