Snake Featherston
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Bumping this thread with an idea
It seems that the conclusion of this thread is that patriarchism raised from the low life expectancy of females prior to modern medicines, due to the dangers of childbirth, and also that polygyny is simply an overwhelmingly much more efficient method of reproduction, giving the societies that practiced it much more advantage in manpower supply compared to those who didn't. While societies like Siraya(CMIIW) tribes native of Taiwan which carefully maintain political balance between the sexes ended up with thin population due to that very practice....
It seems that polygyny has been the most effective weapon for strict patriarchal societies to conquer the world. It seems that societies that are not sufficiently patriacrhal won't ever going to employ such tradition and thus, will always end up as pushovers for expanding patriarchal societies....
Unless if they will....
I'm thinking whether matriachism can thrive through the employment of polygyny tradition. Would that be doable ? So maybe the initial basis of such society would be a handful group of women that collectively 'own' a male. Such family/micro community structure becomes the norm, and it grows from there. The question would maybe about how to keep women on top from there....
So how does this idea explain polyandrous societies?