PeonForHer
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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer As if it were possible to move the fantasy of female superiority into the real, social and political world. I fear that you're extracting the urine here, Stella. There were no doubt people who thought the same thing about same-sex marriages and BDSM in general. But same-sex marriages and BDSM are things of the private domain, not of the public. The general belief in liberal democracies is that what goes on in the private domain is, largely, not the state's business. Certain moral convictions (some of which predate the Enlightenment, let alone liberal democracies) contradict that public/private distinction - but these convictions were never going to last forever. quote:
While there is evidence to suggest the existence of matriarchal societies in ancient history, we know the idea of male superiority was alive socially, theologically and politically for many, many centuries in the past, all mantled under the idea that the creator of the known Universe was a "him". With the sociopolitical world in contemporary Western culture increasingly celebrating the excellence of Women (or in the very least, the insistence of equality) . . . . Recognising equality is quite different to recognising superiority. An underpinning idea in liberal democracies is that people are considered morally equal. Another general belief in liberal democracies is that of individualism - that is, the belief in the importance of the individual over any social group. Given those tenets, the general course of social change has been towards a whittling away of patriarchy. But, because of exactly the same tenets, it's unlikely we'll ever see a growing belief in the superiority of women over men. For most, that would just raise the objection of 'hey, two wrongs don't make a right!". We're no more likely to end up recognising women as superior to men than we are to end up recognising blacks as superior to whites. What we are likely to see is a growing belief in the merits of this or that individual, despite such an individual being a member of a certain group that's hitherto been one against which society has had a prejudice. Women, as a group, are one example - but only one of many such groups.
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