DBWI: No Matriarchy?

IC: Don't remind me of the last time somebody made one of those "What if Humans were Apes?" threads. The OP and about half a dozen other members got banned after that clusterpiss.

OOC: Not that worried, TBH. :)
:confused::confused::confused: Humans are apes, evolution proved it.

After all the great apes are all matriarchal with the female leaders and week males who care for the young.

After all, that's what humanity evovled from.

OOC: I'm calling bullshit on "What if humans were Apes" becouse I'm assuming humans know about biology.

Unless you meant a troll ITTL came up with a stupid thread that was flame-bait.
 
OOC: Do we know about any of these ancient theories? I'd like to hear them, or at least know where to look.

OOC: The first that comes to mind is in the Old Testament, in ancient Hebrew society it was widely believed a man had a limited quantity of seed while the woman was a fertile field that could always be plowed hence the prohibitions regarding male homosexuality.

Another is the belief in the Indian subcontinent that semen contained a man's life essence and that leaking it out is detrimental to their health.

And that's all before we get into really weird shit like Hippocrates' wandering womb theory!
 
OOC: The first that comes to mind is in the Old Testament, in ancient Hebrew society it was widely believed a man had a limited quantity of seed while the woman was a fertile field that could always be plowed hence the prohibitions regarding male homosexuality.

I've never heard of that given as a reason for the prohibition, and have never even heard of that in the Bible at all. Perhaps you're confusing the Bible with something from the Talmud?
 
Anyone with the slightest knowledge of history can tell you that for most of human history women have held authority over men. In times past men where considered to be the property first of their mother, and then of their wife. The word "father" didn't even exist until the discovery of the male role in reproduction durring the scientific revolution. It wasn't until 100 years ago that men could vote or hold any real political power (and they still can't in some countries!) Not to mention we've never elected a male president in this country. So what if human matriarchy never got established? I know this would require some biological changes, as human females are on average taller, stronger, and heavier then human males, and therefore had an easy time achieving dominance over them in human prehistory, but suppose women weren't larger, would that make a world without matriarchy possible?

Given the reproductively determined division of labour, I don't see men achieving power in class society even if they were the same size as women.

yours,
Sam R.
 
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