Thread by @ThePatriarchyp

Over 1,500 societies have existed.

Here's what feminism has got wrong about all of them:

’Defining matriarchy as the mirror image of patriarchy, I would conclude that no matriarchal society has ever existed.'

- Gerda Lerner, 'The Creation of Patriarchy' (OUP, 1986), p.31

This is because patriarchy serves women and children best.

Mankind’s earliest works of art were depictions of women: the Venus figurines are 30,000 years old.

They symbolise pregnancy and nurturing.

In no society has the role of caring for small infants been mainly male.

‘Women may be said to be mothers unless they are taught to deny their child-bearing qualities. Society must distort their sense of themselves, pervert their inherent growth-patterns, perpetuate a series of learning outrages on them’.

- Margaret Mead

About 20 pregnancies is the lifetime limit for a woman.

The Sharifian emperor of Morocco, Moulay Ismail the Bloodthirsty, had 888 children.

This means women are the limiting factor in reproduction, giving them POWER.

‘Everywhere sex is something that females have that males want.’

- Symons, 'The Evolution of Human Sexuality' (OUP, 1979), p.253.

Female prostitution is ubiquitous.

Male prostitutes usually end up servicing homosexuals.

As Darwin said, ‘males are almost always the wooers’.

Hence nuptial gifts are common in nature.

Males have to give something.

But the female IS the gift.

Women are much less likely than men to engage in

- 'sex' with animals

- 'sex' with inanimate objects

- homosexuality

Sex is more precious to women because mistakes are costlier to them.

Males are the genetic filter:

- The male-male contest establishes the more reproductively fit males.

- The females then choose those males.

- The genetic quality becomes higher.

- So does the number of offspring.

Women across cultures prefer symmetry in men becuase it means:

- bigger, taller and more muscular bodies

- slightly higher IQ

- better mental and physical health

- higher sperm number per ejaculate and sperm motility.

More symmetrical men bring their wives to orgasm more often, increasing the chance of pregnancy by opening the cervix.

More symmetrical virgin men outperform sexually experienced asymmetrical men.

Monogamy isn't about men oppressing women.

Being the limiting factor in reproduction lets women choose their preferred mating strategy.

And it’s always monogamy.

The idea that oppressive males at the top of ‘the patriarchy’ would suppress female sexuality makes no sense.

They would be the ones women would be likely to cheat on their partners with.

FGM, veiling and foot-binding are mainly inflicted on women by women.

By suppressing female sexuality, women maintain a chronic shortage and hence high prices.

The more a society attempts to drift away from patriarchy, ironically the less control of men women have.

The provider role encourages men to commit to monogamy by making them feel dignified and valued.

A man focused on a family he loves works harder and better than a man focused on his next flippant sexual encounter.

This means he benefits society more.

The more radical feminism seeks freedom from family for women, the more they free men from the provider role.

The Sexual Revolution liberated men more than it did women.

Sex gives women power in the private realm.

Women then bestow male power in the public to reward men for their services to women and, indirectly, civilisation.

That's patriarchy.

As Betty Friedan pointed out, feminists *underestimated* the power of the women’s sphere.

Ultimately, feminism is misogyny because the only power it values is male power.

It tells little girls to follow their dreams - UNLESS that involves being a housewife.

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