Yes, Patriarchy Is Dead; the Feminists Prove It

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27. You're right to a point.

The women weren't being protected entirely for their own benefit, but also for that society's, and especially for the family's benefit.

The women could have been carted off to the victors society to serve a new propagative role, but I suspect that most of them would prefer to stay with the family and society in which they were raised. But who knows, I suppose... perhaps she'd be just as happy in the visigoth encampment as she is here with her kids.

Here's an interesting observation. Aid agencies solicit funding by appeals to donors because "80% of refugees are women and children". The reason of course is because the men died, often in a failed attempt to prevent their loved ones becoming refugees. The refugees and the dead guys are both equally manifestations of patriarchy.

Pre-industrial lives were nasty, brutish and short. I have no doubt that the degree of physical labor as well as the lack of legitimate choices impacted everyone, but when strangers rode up, it was the guy and his rifle standing before the cabin protecting the women and children inside. Generally speaking, responsibility comes with a degree of authority.

Now that there's no longer a reason for the responsibility, there's no longer a reason for the authority. In theory, mom could be equally responsible for the protection of the family, but in practice we educate girls and not boys because we don't want our daughters to take the dangerous and unpleasant jobs that constitute men's work. And when women don't take jobs in the woods or on the commercial fishing boats or welding or building skyscrapers, we blame it on the boys club that won't let her in. To the extent that it exists, that male co-workers discourage women from roofing houses, it not because of domination, power and privilege. Were that the case people would welcome conscript women into the dangerous jobs and oppose women in boardrooms and congress.

If domination, control and physical labor were the point of patriarchy, Hillary would be a coal miner, not a candidate for president.