Lorelei Weldon
3 min readNov 28, 2021

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Oh, my goodness! If you have no real understanding of basic anthropology, history, or sociology, you really shouldn't be attempting to talk about these topics. Patriarchy is a social system that came into being around the time of the agriculatural revolution.

"Today, most anthropologists would agree, regardless of their stance on issues such as the universality of male dominance, that an entirely different order of male dominance became associated with the rise of the large and populous agricultural states organized in terms of classes. The patriarchal systems that emerged brought women for the first time under the direct control of fathers and husbands with few cross-cutting sources of support. Women as wives under this system were not social adults, and women’s lives were defined in terms of being a wife. Women’s mothering and women’s sexuality came to be seen as requiring protection by fathers and husbands. Protecting unmarried women’s virginity appears to go along with the idea of the domestication of women and an emphasis on a radical dichtomy between the public and the private sphere." https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft0k40038c&chunk.id=d0e3814&toc.id=d0e3814&brand=ucpress

Prior to this time, humans lived in small forager tribes or slightly larger proto-agricultural enclaves where everyone in the group fed and looked out for everyone else. Because all of the group contributed to food production, and gatherers provided about 40-70% of the sustenance just as they do today in most forager bands, women weren't sitting home minding the cave, waiting to be provided for. That only happens with the rise of agriculture (and patriarchy) when women are relegated to the inside of the house and men work the fields. https://hraf.yale.edu/ehc/summaries/hunter-gatherers

Compared to agriculturalists that typically had one baby every two years, foragers have them on average every four years. Of course, we don't know for sure at what age our Paleolithic ancestors began breeding, but in most current forager tribes, the average age is 17 for girls and 21 for boys. In some cultures, girls are expected to sleep around for a while before finally settling on a permanent mate. That's not happening in patriarchal cultures where girls are married off as soon as they begin menstruating.

And humans don't fight each other for mates. We aren't gorillas. Until patriarchy, it didn't matter who a father was because everyone took care of everyone else. Sperm competition and not mate competition is how humans evolved. The coronal ridge of the penis is specifically shaped that way to scoop out the semen left there by other men. It's also the reason that men go flaccid right after ejaculation - so as not to scoop out their own genetic material. Look it up!

"Comparisons to other primates are especially persuasive. Like humans, our closest cousins, chimps and bonobos, have testes on the outside (though theirs are bigger), and male animals are typically 10 to 15 percent larger than females. Gorillas, though, like more distant cousins on steroids, have small penises (balls on the inside), and males that are twice as big as females. Because gorillas mate polygynously (multiple ladies for each dude), males must be imposing to win access to females (specifically, their vaginas). But for chimps and bonobos, “multimale-multifemale” maters, the battle is on the inside — large volumes of sperm fight to the egg, even leaving traps for competitors. Our genital similarities to chimps and bonobos thus reveal our promiscuous past." https://medium.com/inside-of-elle-beau/fighting-for-mates-like-elk-or-gorillas-isnt-how-humans-evolved-7bc8a73acc19

There are only about 3% of animals that are monogamous and humans are not in that category - at least not sexually monogamous. Pair bonding is ancient but social and sexual monogamy aren't the same things. “A female who mates with several different males will have more genetically diverse offspring, boosting the chances that at least some of them will thrive.”

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0083667

So, please shut up about feminist talking points and learn some science because most of what you are spouting off here is pure fiction or does not remotely apply to human mating.

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Lorelei Weldon
Lorelei Weldon

Written by Lorelei Weldon

Student of human nature and advocate for a safer, saner, more love-infused world. If I read it, there’s a good chance I’ll leave a comment.

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