Many believe patriarchy is natural and feminine submission should be expected.

This is empirically wrong.

In the beginning,

Most prehistoric societies were relatively egalitarian but the patriarchal social structures did not develop until many years after the end of the Pleistocene Era. Due to social and technological development such as agriculture and domestication, men began to practise marriage in the aim of building family structure. They consanguineously settled together to encourage economic liaisons.

Men formed a social system in which the father is the head of the household, having authority over women and children, and in which lineage is traced through the male line. Men directed household production, became in charge of provisions, sought to control women in order to ensure the passing of family property to their own (male) offspring, while women were only limited to household labour and producing children because of inter-tribal exchanges of women (marriage) to build strategic alliance between families and tribes. Women acquiesced to this because then, it was seen as functional to the tribe. At the progression of religion and culture, men imposed harsh rules intending to have full dominion and control over their women and other minorities in the society.

On this cause, women have been publicly humiliated, mistreated, abused and many killed as punishment for going against those rules. This is how women became subservient beings to men. If submission were natural in women, there wouldn't be thousands of sermons daily reminding women to submit because nature doesn't need reminders to run its course. All these religious and traditional laws exist because indoctrination depends on constant reinforcement to keep oppressive ideologies alive. Women may appear weaker due to lean muscle mass but they're not. The problem is the MINDSET. Patriarchy became a mores in Africa and many part of the world. So young girls grow with the mindset that men are superior due to environmental indoctrination. Thereby nurturally believing that men are more important in the society. This is a wrong ideology that has led to many inhumane acts on women. No one should raise his or her girl child with such impression. Equality is not arrogance, it is self realisation.

-JM


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