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Lately my studies have moved from music (at least, in my spare time) to matriarchy, the history of matriarchy, and matriarchy in the animal kingdom. Pretty interesting stuff. For example, many theorize that the studies of existing matriarchy in current culture and in the animal kingdom are suppressed by the media (or shall we say, THEM?) in order to keep the peace in our unnaturally patriarchal society. There is an active force that keeps the general population believing that men are the natural leaders of the human race.
So I had to look deeper and find out what exactly a matriarchal society would be like, and how men came into control. According to quite a few different authors and theorists, Christianity was the movement that overthrew matriarchy. Previous to christianinity, there was a Goddess, or "Divine Mother" whom people worshipped. Family heritage was based on maternity, not paternity. Marriage was created by christians, and enforced through violence, murder, and the removal of women from main stream society, in order for men to take control of bloodlines. Through marriage, men could force women to bear as many of their children as they desired, as opposed to matrilineal societies where children are raised by the mother's family. In these matrilineal societies (that still exist today) uncles take the role of what western society and christianity views as the role of the father. This seems to make more sense to me, considering that a brother is going to have more ties to his nephew. An uncle isn't going to be as inclined to leave the family so that he can see other women, or escape the responsibilities of raising a child. People are not forced to be tied down to each other just because they have children, and children take the family name of their mother's family instead of their father's.
I think it would be a great movement if people would enforce the idea of giving children their mother's last name. This would completely eliminate the problem of having kids with different last names than their parents.
I have been trying to finish this for about a week now, so I’ll just end it here and expand more later.
The End.
So I had to look deeper and find out what exactly a matriarchal society would be like, and how men came into control. According to quite a few different authors and theorists, Christianity was the movement that overthrew matriarchy. Previous to christianinity, there was a Goddess, or "Divine Mother" whom people worshipped. Family heritage was based on maternity, not paternity. Marriage was created by christians, and enforced through violence, murder, and the removal of women from main stream society, in order for men to take control of bloodlines. Through marriage, men could force women to bear as many of their children as they desired, as opposed to matrilineal societies where children are raised by the mother's family. In these matrilineal societies (that still exist today) uncles take the role of what western society and christianity views as the role of the father. This seems to make more sense to me, considering that a brother is going to have more ties to his nephew. An uncle isn't going to be as inclined to leave the family so that he can see other women, or escape the responsibilities of raising a child. People are not forced to be tied down to each other just because they have children, and children take the family name of their mother's family instead of their father's.
I think it would be a great movement if people would enforce the idea of giving children their mother's last name. This would completely eliminate the problem of having kids with different last names than their parents.
I have been trying to finish this for about a week now, so I’ll just end it here and expand more later.
The End.