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Showing Original Post only (View all)Where have societies' views of women come from? [View all]
What single source has done the most to skew a variety of societies' views of what women are like, how they should be treated, what their value is to society, etc?
I can't think of any source beyond religion that has done more work to maintain sexism.
But maybe that's because of my own bias.
So - can anyone think of anything that has contributed more to the repression of females?
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the poster to whom you responded is one seriously dedicated feminist, and probably, as I am,
niyad
Apr 2013
#13
True, I suppose. But that was a new idea at the time. Very modern and a new way of thinking
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#11
No, I haven't done a scientific study. That was my opinion, based on things
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#12
^This. When survival depended on brute strength, a woman needed a man to survive more than a
Squinch
Apr 2013
#80
where does it come from? the abrahamic, patriarchal religions, to start (meaning, christianity,
niyad
Apr 2013
#15
I read it many years ago, thought I still had a copy somewhere, but I dont. Saw Riane in
niyad
Apr 2013
#37
will have to order that one, as well. thank you. that one I know is not on my shelves.
niyad
Apr 2013
#87
Good post. I would add that before war and settled communities came an ecological barrier that
byeya
Apr 2013
#56
Genetically, humans are slightly closer to common chimps than bonobos, I think. When a bonobo female
byeya
Apr 2013
#53
There are still matriarchal societies today. The Mosuo in China come to mind
riderinthestorm
Apr 2013
#35
The anthropologist Marvin Harris showed that the more militaristic a society was, the worse females
byeya
Apr 2013
#41
Thomas Jefferson who wrote "All MEN are created equal" and left out 76% of the country
graham4anything
Apr 2013
#51
You're asking for a single source, for one of human society's most complex constructs?
Scootaloo
Apr 2013
#78