The Myth Of Patriarchy

One of the core beliefs of Feminism is that we live in an oppressive patriarchy that has oppressed women since the dawn of time. Women have always been relegated to the status of second-class citizens, damned to a life of housewivery and servitude.

Needless to say, this idea is ridiculous and I'll probably do future videos that dive deeper into this topic, as its an extremely large topic to go through (considering how patriarchy theory is integral to feminism. Feminism cannot exist without the belief that we live in a misogynistic patriarchy, just like Abrahamic fundamentalism cannot exist without the belief that non-believers will burn in eternal hellfire).

This video is an overview of why patriarchy is a myth, why we don't really live in a patriarchy (or at least, not as Feminism claims us to), and why we should celebrate women's achievements rather than viewing women as 'oppressed.' Women are NOT oppressed, and we certainly haven't been in the way that Feminism tells us we have.

The Paradox Institute is an excellent YouTube channel that discusses sex and gender differences very well. Here are a couple of videos of theirs that I recommend:

➤ Is Sex Bimodal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLH-y2nLocw
➤ The Intersex Gambit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqJ_8PjVdb0
➤ Chromosomes Are Not Sexes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbwzJ3dLEkA

➤ Full channel link: https://youtube.com/@UC6S9ILscXpzh2RQLKMJMnTw

** Books Mentioned **

➤ The Female Brain: https://amzn.to/3uR2O8a
➤ The Male Brain: https://amzn.to/3HJEyvG
➤ The End of Gender: https://amzn.to/3uRZpGr
➤ The Feminine Mystique: https://amzn.to/3W9UM5A
➤ The Myth of Male Power: https://amzn.to/3jMKUNw

Roles of women in Medieval England:
➤ https://www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/women-in-medieval-society
➤ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269650150_Say_Little_Do_Much_Nurses_Nuns_and_Hospitals_in_the_Nineteenth_Century
➤ https://kriii.com/nursing-in-medieval-times/
➤ https://www.heritage.org/marriage-and-family/report/the-way-we-were-alexis-de-tocqueville-women-and-the-family
➤ https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-british-studies/article/abs/female-merchants-women-debt-and-trade-in-later-medieval-england-12661532/E8F38B5B164098694C3C518B4AAF114F
➤ https://ukdiss.com/examples/women-in-the-medieval-economy.php

➤ Complementarianism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complementarianism

Kitchens in the 1950s:
➤ https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/brief-history-of-1950s-1960s-kitchens-247463
➤ https://www.theclassroom.com/household-appliances-of-the-1950s-13409671.html

➤ Phyllis Schlafly on feminism: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/21/333582322/phyllis-schlafly-explains-why-feminism-has-made-women-unhappy

American women who weren’t oppressed:
➤ Ann Franklin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Smith_Franklin
➤ Margaret Corbin: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/margaret-cochran-corbin
➤ Harriot Kezia Hunt: https://www.nps.gov/people/dr-harriot-kezia-hunt.htm
➤ Anne McDowell and other US female writers: https://kalonwomen.com/women-newspaper-publishers-and-editors-in-history/
➤ Sacred Twenty: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Twenty

➤ Polyandry in Tibet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyandry_in_Tibet
➤ Mosuo tribe in China: https://supari.in/mosuo-tribe-world-women-rule/
➤Scythian women: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332061377_The_Cult_of_Female_Warriors_and_Rulers_in_the_Scythian_and_Sarmatian_Cultures
➤ Dahomey women: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/the-true-story-of-the-women-warriors-of-dahomey

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