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This is a Test:
Which Culture is Characteristically Misogynist? Matriarchy or Patriarchy and Why?
Beyond Harvey Weinstein: 30 other high-profile men accused of sexual misconduct, related behavior…the title of a Los Angeles Times article
When A Culture Produces This Much Sexual Assault, It’s Not An Accident…the title of a VOX article
http://bit.ly/2yKQh9S
Hint: Most Americans treated married women according to the concept of coverture, a concept inherited from English common law. Under the doctrine of coverture, a woman was legally considered the chattel of her husband, his possession. Any property she might hold before her marriage became her husband’s on her wedding day, and she had no legal right to appear in court, to sign contracts or to do business. http://bit.ly/2ySbFdA
Which culture is characteristically misogynist? matriarchy or patriarchy and why?
I look forward to your answer.
Since I’ve only lived within a patriarchy, that’s my answer. These men and their huge, fragile egos are used to getting their way and feel entitled. It’s all about power.
Well, you & I are living in a patriarchy culture but, me being 72, I’ve also lived in a matriarchy culture…pre-desegregation African American culture was matriarchal, though diluted.
Our segregation allowed us to live “our” African culture. For example the purest African culture in the US is the Gullah society in South Carolina. Per segregation, being separate & isolated from white patriarchal culture…they had their own schools, no western media, etc. thus were able to maintain their African language, traditions, beliefs, practices, etc. to the extent that when the Smithsonian took some of them to Sierra Leone in the 1990’s, they could still speak the language, WOW!!! after more than 400 years.
“One explanation for Gullah retention of traditions is the geographic isolation of the Sea Islands, which has permitted the Gullah to preserve their cultural traditions despite the influence of mainstream culture. ” http://trib.in/2zRr62F
Awareness of your personal experience leads you to the right answer, However, broadening the personal to include the historical, pre 1492, can only broaden one’s awareness, for example, ‘patriarchy’ is ‘anthropologically culturally’ characterised by domination & control as discussed in:
Cold Wind From the North: The Pre-historic European Origin of Racism, Explained by Diop’s Two Cradle Theory by Wobogo, Vulindlela
Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology by Cheikh Anta Diop
The Cultural Unity of Black Africa by Cheikh Anta Diop established the fact that Africa had a culture & how it differed from European culture which prior to his book, was considered ‘the superior culture’…if Africa had one at all. It is a profound contribution to the universal store of knowledge in that it situates the geographical and cultural origins of patriarchy and matriarchy.
About the author (1989)
Diop because, he disproved European ‘scholars’ on culture with the 1st book above which was his university theses which they had to approve.
Cheikh Anta Diop was born in 1923 in Diourbel, Senegal. After earning a Litt.D. degree in France, Diop worked as a historian in addition to heading the carbon-14 dating laboratory for the Institut Fondamentale d’Afrique Noire in Senegal. He founded two political parties in the 1960s, the Bloc des Masses Senegalaises and the Front Nationale Senegalaise, but he is best remembered for his historical works about Africa. Diop’s works includes Civilization or Barbarism: An Authentic Anthropology, 1991 and Alerte sous les tropiques: Articles 1946-1960: Culture et developpement en Afrique noire, Presence Africaine, 1990. Through his books, Diop attempts to prove that blacks had a larger role in the beginnings of civilization than is generally acknowledged. He was honored by the World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966 as the black intellectual who had exercised the most fruitful influence in the 20th century. Diop died February 7, 1986, in Dakar, Senegal.
Excuse my long windedness…
I appreciate you sharing the history and your experience. It sounds like integration did much more harm than good.
I always try & reference my responses… you’re right according to Derrick Bell, civil rights legal scholar & founder of Critical Race Theory. And, my personal observation, noted civil rights personalities went to white folk via Socialism for answers vs Classical Africa. As I heard Dr Camara, African Studied Professor say recently, ‘we can’t solve ‘our’ problems using European values. That’s why I think, earthly on, Malcolm was closer to a truth for us than Martin.
Make sense?
Indeed! Makes perfect sense, Ms. Jackie.