nobody is saying it's a 1:1 comparison but it is also demonstrably true that there were inequalities in multiple American societies and these inequalities shouldn't be glossed over. the Margaret Thatcher meme was a critique of gender essentialist thinking re: matriarchies, not a direct comparison
a colonized ppl doing horrific things to each other doesn't mean they deserve being colonized nor does being being colonized mean the inequities and brutality of their specific societies are any less troubling. I'm seeking nuance + not flattening the hundreds of native societies a monolith
are you saying that I think the Aztecs are the only Native Americans???? I brought up a single counter example to a claim that ALL indigenous cultures were matriarchal utopias to prove the exact point you're making
it's not official yet and it's not like full time work atm but it easily can be. I think the structure is actually perfect for my ADHD ass
OH MY GOD I THINK I'M EMPLOYED AGAIN I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS
sorry i'm not over this .... getting mad at me for mentioning the aztecs and saying that i don't know native ppl when it was my partner who brought up the aztecs bc he's mexican and his grandmother is part of a recognized tribe in mexico lmfao 🥀
the other prof i worked with on a different north american language knows i am trans so you know if it was him i would just say it but as for now
another reason i do not name my professor is bc i was closeted when i worked with him and while i highly doubt he would be transphobic i do not want to have to process THAT on a public forum too thanks
Left does this constantly. They also woobify indigenous culture pretending that they were all perfect & peaceful even in the face of archeological evidence that says otherwise. Like some of them were insanely violent. That doesn't mean they deserved to be wiped out, but let's stop whitewashing them
i'm sorry that i would like to avoid doxxing myself by not accidentally linking myself to my term-searching professor on a public forum. i've given you enough information for you to very easily figure out who he is actually lol. his grandfather is a very well-known indigenous linguist
firstly i didn't write this but secondly you literally are mad at me for saying that it is objectively untrue that all native americans societies were matriarchal while also claiming that i know no native americans bc i would know better if i did????
you're being insanely disingenuous. i did not write this, firstly. i posted a screenshot of my professor's bluesky bio, lol. i'm not going to post his name bc that will fucking doxx me
the isaac lore i don't drop often is i worked with two different north american tribes to document/revitalize their languages and got a paper published about one of them 🫣
lmfao i posted that screenshot bc i just had a hunch my prof would be on bluesky and i would die of embarrassment if he was like oh hey former research assistant of mine AND LO AND BEHLD THERE HE IS
i'll post a screenshot at least but like come on this is like the definition of a patriarchal configuration
i did a whole thesis with my indigenous professor within his tribe that i will not name bc he is Online and term searches everything and he would be the first to tell you it is not fucking matriarchal what are you talking about lol
NO I'M SORRY I AGREE WITH YOU I WAS TEASING THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS
[boldly] victorian england was matriarchal
Basically matriarchy discourse is a by-product of patriarchy. The logic is still patriarchal.
now you see i have the unpopular opinion in lefty spaces which is that i am not actually anti-hierarchy completely but i think it is flat-out reactionary to be like if women were in charge of hierarchy it would be rainbows and unicorns
my other point of contention with the matriarchy thing is like. if patriarchy denotes a hierarchical society in which the reproductive and domestic labor of women is exploited then why would we want a gender-flipped version of that lol
let go of your need for perfect victims, colonisation is still criminal to the highest degree when the colonized societies are just as evil as the empire's
yes i love that book! it was my intro into the topic lol
yes exactly. like the examples i can think of off the top of my head had male power too. ppl miss that patriarchy is also AGE-BASED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it's not actually unusual to see elder women specifically in positions of power lol
actually i think the failure of the reconstruction era is a pretty good argument against democratic socialism bc they're still down there voting Like That even with the highest proportion of Black ppl in the entire country. something something dictatorship of the bourgeoisie
guy who's gradually developing "reconstruction was a dismal failure that has had horrifying impacts on the US as a whole" as an opinion
materialism is cool bc you can look at the economic context and history of a place and go ohhhhh the southern US is Like That because it was a slave economy and they never really got over it mentally and spiritually huh
I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out:
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
society if ppl stopped being so idealist and instead actually understood what materialism is and that patriarchy is ultimately a socioeconomic system at its core and not ideology
bookmarking for reference thanks!!
