Lorelei Weldon
2 min readNov 28, 2021

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When confronted with a whole bunch of scientific precepts (including citations) that refute the myths you are peddling, you accuse the other person of not knowing what they are talking about? It's a lame ploy, but perhaps there's so much cognitive dissonance that you can't even perceive all of the problems with your assertions. I realized that I forgot to put in all the links to where the quotes are from, but they should be there now.

Here's a quick summary of what is wrong with your assertions:

Patriachy is a sociological phenomenon that arose for the first time around the agricultural revolution. It has nothing to do with feminism per se, although may sometimes be used in that context. It's when people went from all taking care of the entire social group as a primary survival strategy to a hiearachical class-based social system where paternity is suddenly relevant and women are socially and sexually controlled by men for the first time in human history. This took place just a few thousand years ago. Look it up - it's basic anthropology.

Prior to this time, gatherers (who were usually, but not always women) provided the bulk of the sustenance to the tribe, just as they do in many current forager bands. There was no hierarchy of males fighting for access to mates. Humans have testes and penises that are large relative to body size just like our closest primate cousins, chimpanzees and bonobos, because we also were desigend to be multi-male, multi-female maters, just like they are. Gorillas fight for access to a harem of females, and they have tiny penises and balls. Humans engage in sperm competition, not mate competition prior to copulation. Look it up!

Only a very small number of animals are sexually monogamous, and humans are not in that category, even though they are socially monogamous (engage in pair bonding).

Modern forager band, who still maintain an egalitarian (not a class-based patriarchal) social structure do not marry girls at 13. That's a function of patriarchy.

Look, I really don't have any more time to spend educating you on the basics of human biology, anthropology 101, core precepts of sociology, etc. If you don't believe what I'm saying, go research it for yourself.

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Lorelei Weldon
Lorelei Weldon

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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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