Rafael Thundercat

The Caliban and the Witch book. For good, take a look on that book. The book is writen Silvia Federici's Your text describes post-menopausal women as potential vessels of cultural transmission — a biological anomaly that evolution seems to have preserved for social rather than reproductive reasons (the "grandmother hypothesis"). This maps almost exactly onto the historical figure Federici analyzes: the witch. Federici argues that the witch hunts of early modern Europe weren't irrational hysteria — they were a deliberate, systematic destruction of a specific social role: the elder woman as healer, midwife, herbalist, keeper of communal and bodily knowledge. These were overwhelmingly older women, often past reproductive age, holding precisely the cultural inheritance function the text describes. If evolution preserved post-menopausal women because they carry and transmit cultural knowledge, then the witch hunts weren't just misogyny — they were an attack on a specific evolutionary and social function Federici connects this to primitive accumulation: capitalism needed to sever communities from their own knowledge systems, and elder women were those systems The "witch" becomes the criminalized version of the grandmother-as-knowledge-keeper Your text says we still don't fully understand why women endure so long after menopause. Federici's work suggests we did understand it culturally — and then burned it.

You guys need to stop trying to find Patriarchy outside. It exists installed inside your minds. https://www.instagram.com/p/DX7Vzubj5Bs/?igsh=c2VkeHdkMTFrZm1u And it plays out in subtle ways that even blast out here in the Forum in many ways. Check for example this way here, where we as man expects woman to to emotional labor for us. https://www.instagram.com/p/DYkvjk3klh6/?igsh=d3J5OGk0cXYwZ2Uw Is you as a man never did what is explicited in this post you must be a liar. I did this many times I must confess, I a male bias I carry and trying to be aware each and every day. Is not woman that need to do the work to dismantle Patriarchy alone. The struggle relies on men.

Haha, the tendency is so predictable, whe a woman express herself fully she just must have so psychological disorder. Why this assumption? She need to express in a certain way? In certain parameters? To serve the ears of whom?

There are already many communities like this. I will not source the ones I know here for respect. Some guys here dont even deserve to see cleraly the very thing they dismiss being possible to exist. Ah and this is for you @Willy Phallicus

For me you are full of 💩

Another one for the woman here, since you are the ones with Wombs. https://www.instagram.com/p/DYni5ZTAaQd/?igsh=MWp3dXNpNmN2bmZhaQ==

This is for the women in the Forum, that as far as I can see are a few. https://www.instagram.com/p/DYngbw_FJd7/?igsh=MTUxM3M2dDdvY2R1cw== Tell me if in your experience this is not the case? I am open for perspective Also take a look in the work of Toi Marie. Even is for the sake of Requisite Variety. For me so.e members forget the concept of requisite Variety. I dont mean being able to know it all, but to at least explore others writing and voices more than the usual references shared a lot in this forum. I remember for example not knowing the work of Susan cook Croider and how being exposed to her work expanded my views. I dont assume I am the know it all in this topics I share, I am ok with some contrarian views, but to simply dissmis others voices before a depth study of them is contrarian to the very spirit of the work that Actualized.org talks about.

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The Matriarchal Masculine.

Well, unless woman start to matching the game like this lady here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYIaKhpBisY/?igsh=bHk5cmFxdHl2OWUy Keep thinking woman cant be brutal and maybe one day you find one that will show you you theory is not so certain.

If you think Matrilinearity is something akin to this here https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYjy0NFIubG/?igsh=NGwyZDNsNnloZDVr It means you have more study to do. Matrilinearity is not the Woman version of Patriarchy.

The very ideia of some people lifestylew being primitive is a colonial settler one. Phillipines for example: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYivYUTvLlG/?igsh=dnA2a2xuYzlvMzM= This ideia that the colonialist will come to help the Natives to rise up their ways of living, and all means used to bring Modernity to them are justofiable and for their own good. What if the way of living in unision with nature is actually advanced? What if the so called advanced civilizations are a entropy of what being truly advanced is? How advanced as far as I can see in old History and Daily news. How advanced to bring ecosystems to the brink of colapse, how advanced.

Where did I said that returning to small, isolated primitive pre industrial era mindset? Dont strawman the issue. For sure the people engaged in study of Patriarchal Structure and Matriarchal Structure dont hold hopes to a retun of people living in Teepes,Hunting etc...

I will ignore the two last non-sense rants above since I dont have maturity to debate with kids. So I will drop this here for who interested in knowing that there are Matriarchal Societies and this Societies are not about Woman domination of men, they are simply another way of governance for humans. Lets let the chimps and gorillas in their own way of living and remember that we are another line of evolution. I think is already proved that we are somehow like apes but in another level of evolution. Humans gained capacity to organize in ways that apes cant. Here is the example for study. There are stories that change the way we understand the world. Not because they are new, but because they show us that what we today consider "normal" is not the only way to organize society. In the Haudenosaunee Confederacy (North America), the clan mothers embody another way of organizing society. A society where imposition or domination over others is not necessary for "things to work." Nor is the accumulation of resources and capital a priority... it is a society where responsibility, balance and care for life are prioritized. Here the Clan Mothers nominated leaders, could remove them from power, and sustained political legitimacy. Belonging, land and community life were organized through the maternal line. 🩸 And this was not just a political structure. It was also expressed in daily life: houses belonged to women, men joined the maternal clan and, if a relationship ended, it was he who had to return to his maternal home. Life was not fragmented between the political, the economic or the spiritual: everything formed part of the same fabric. This type of organization was documented in the 19th century by Lewis Henry Morgan and Ely S. Parker, though it was also questioned and distorted at the time, partly because it deeply challenged dominant ideas about power and the place of women in society. The work of Barbara Alice Mann allows us to return to these stories from a different place, showing that maternal authority in Haudenosaunee society was not an exception, but part of a balanced system centered on life. Now let me search for relevant books, references and videos. Books Barbara Alice Mann (the author referenced in the post): Iroquoian Women: The Gantowisas (2000) — Peter Lang Publishing. The definitive work on Haudenosaunee matriarchy, now considered a classic. Daughters of Mother Earth: The Wisdom of Native American Women (ed.) — explores women's roles pre-colonization. Make a Beautiful Way: The Wisdom of Native American Women — four essays from Indigenous women on matriarchy and colonialism. Encyclopedia of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois Confederacy) (2000), co-authored with Bruce E. Johansen — Greenwood Publishing. Lewis Henry Morgan (also cited in the post): League of the Iroquois (1851) — the first systematic 19th-century documentation of Haudenosaunee society. Sally Roesch Wagner: Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists (2001) — traces how Iroquois matriarchy directly influenced the suffragist movement. Videos Haudenosaunee | Women and Governance (YouTube): What Is The Role Of Clan Mothers In The Haudenosaunee Confederacy? (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ncZQxJOf0 Clan Mother: Healing the Community — The Ways (YouTube): Without a Whisper — short documentary on Clan Mothers and the suffrage movement (PBS): https://www.pbs.org/video/without-a-whisper-wnpj8u/ Inside the Vision for Clan Mothers Healing Village (PBS Native America): https://www.pbs.org/video/clan-mother-icf9k6/ 🌐 Official Sources Haudenosaunee Confederacy official site: https://www.haudenosauneeconfederacy.com/clan-system/ Onondaga Nation on Clan Mothers: https://www.onondaganation.org/government/clan-mothers/ Now kids, bring some substance to sustain all your blable.

Patriarchy doesn't exist because men are "naturally" superior to women; it exists because they aren't. You do not build a system of dominance that oppresses women because you're "better than them"; you build it because you know you aren't. You don't break women because you're whole; you break them because they're whole. The patriarchy is a symptom of men's fears, not power; it is a desperate process of possessing power.