nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Of course it could be something as simple as written language forming a concomitant part of a societal organisation revolving around centralised authority - which is inextricable from some form of hierarchy, and the most primitive social dichotomy is between the sexes.
And the most primitive way to exert authority over someone is by (threat of) brute force.
And men are generally bigger and stronger than women.
Yeah, but a lot of the earliest societies were matriarchal. It's really just Judeo-Christianity-Islam (mostly Christianity and Islam) that introduced patriarchy and monotheism (Judaism is NOT monotheistic, it just put its god above the others in the region), and along with it the masculine/feminine binary. Before then, and in other global regions, female deities were being worshipped.
It's funny, isn't it, that for most of human history [edit: but especially in western societies] we've spent all kinds of energy and cultural resources on socially controlling female sexuality, not male sexuality?
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