What If We LIved In a Matriarchy?

council of clan mothers in an imagined post-civilization culture; diorama from Afterculture (redrawn by AI to make the image crisper and more legible — right click to open full size in a new window) Lyle Fass has recently written a series of articles lamenting the staggering incompetence and destructiveness of patriarchal societies (which almost all societies in the entire history of our civilization have seemingly been), and wishing we might instead live in a matriarchal one, with the men under control (for a change) to at least minimize the damage of their behaviour. Examples of his recent writing: Bring Me the Matriarchy When Men Are No Longer the Chosen Ones A few key excerpts from the first of these articles: Human beings have found endless ways to brutalize each other. Race, class, caste, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, nationality, all of it matters, all of it has blood on it. But women sit underneath almost every one of those systems like the original field of…