The binary aside, what you just described about how men have treated women would be considered socially constructed sets of behaviors, yes? ( I'm just trying to figure out what people mean by social construct and what that encompasses)
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Replying to @Casssandra_RH @brandt_kat and
Is it socially constructed all the way down though? Look at great apes society's mating behaviours (from dominant male mating rights to poligomous pairing) - female reproductive role creates a horizon of possiblity. For women, this is a brute fact of their existence
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Replying to @unwitod @itsSupercar and
That's a valid point. It's men acting like apes, basically. Driven to reproduce and to control the bloodline. But it's been encoded into law, religion, culture, everything.
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Replying to @brandt_kat @itsSupercar and
And it goes further, because a lot of what we think of as 'female socialisation' (defusing, 'niceness') is - arguably - the offspring of the ways in which females have always had to manage these aggressive male drives AND the impact of other males' possessive behaviour
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Replying to @unwitod @itsSupercar and
That happens when you spend millennia being beaten, raped, and killed for not being "nice".
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Replying to @brandt_kat @itsSupercar and
No doubt. I mentioned a 'horizon of possiblity', though. The holocaust of rape and murder - UNICEF estimates 1 in 5 women will be raped in their lifetime and 1.5-3 million women and girls are killed in sex-based violence PER YEAR - doesn't follow We could be so much better
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Replying to @unwitod @itsSupercar and
Matriarchy is the only way. Women have to control the bloodline. Otherwise we'll always be subjected to violence. Matriarchal societies are peaceful, egalitarian, sexually liberal (relatively) and better for men as well as women. But people aren't ready to hear that.
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Replying to @brandt_kat @unwitod and
"I don't believe in gender essentialism or biological determinism, that's YOU, I want to ABOLISH gender" Five tweets later "And that's why in an ideal society you'd have to prove you have XX chromosomes before you can run for office"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
Men have positions of leadership in matriarchal societies. But women are the heads of households and bloodlines are drawn through them. When did I say that men shouldn't be allowed to run for office? I think you imagined that.
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Replying to @brandt_kat @unwitod and
"I think we should determine who is or isn't the head of a household or family based on whether they have a uterus Also, I am 'gender critical' and in favor of abolishing gender"
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Also you're confusing "matriarchal" and "matrilineal", and your thesis that "how you draw the bloodline" makes all the difference in who rules society is highly questionable historically
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Replying to @arthur_affect @unwitod and
It does make a difference, if you look at examples of matriarchal societies. "Patriarchy" means "rule of the fathers". The basis of patriarchy is male ownership and control of female bodies, because we produce offspring.
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