That’s right Wyrd Sister. There are around 160 matrilineal, matrifocal cultures in the world right now. There is nothing inherently patriarchal about human culture. If it were natural, they wouldn’t have to shore it up with legislation all the time. They wouldn’t be coming for our vote the way they are.
Seriously? What you have written Douglas Giles, PhD implies that patriarchy is just the natural order of things—a common tenet of patriarchal ideology and a particularly virulent form of patriarchal propaganda. Yet throughout history, we have had non-patriarchal societies—various precolonial indigenous societies, for example—around the world. So there is …