1. Orígenes y Antigüedad del Patriarcado.
El debate se centra en la antigüedad del patriarcado. Algunas opiniones lo sitúan como un sistema milenario, vinculado a la agricultura y la propiedad, mientras que otras lo consideran una construcción más reciente, producto del colonialismo o de cambios sociales específicos.
- Patriarchy goes back thousands of years even though the word we know to describe it is hardly as old.
- The current form of patriarchy began around 12,00 years ago with the advent of agriculture, which shifted societies from nomadic lifestyles to settled communities, leading to male dominance in resource control and family structures.
- Patriarchy hasn’t been the norm throughout history. History has been rewritten, replaced, reconstructed and recoded by men for men and to remake societies with men as the dominant power. This is a new and began during years ago. Women have to understand that this began under colonialism.
- The patriarchy has not existed “since the dawn of time.” it was invented and put into place systematically over a long period. We lived without it for a very long time and we can do so again.
2. ¿Constructo Natural o Imposición Social?
Una discusión central es si el patriarcado es una condición biológica o 'natural' de la humanidad. Muchos argumentan que su necesidad de ser mantenido por la fuerza y la violencia demuestra su artificialidad, contrastando con la existencia histórica de sociedades más igualitarias.
- Patriarchy isn’t natural. If it were natural, it wouldn’t need force to maintain it.
- But why would patriarchy be such a common denominator in human societies around the world all through history if there's nothing innate about it.
- The patriarchy is, unfortunately, somewhat biological if you look at humans as purely another primate species. We should be smart enough to act differently but we aren’t.
- Patriarchy was not born of nature. It was born of fear. Fear of the mystery of women, of blood and birth, of intuitive knowing that could not be owned or controlled.
- If patriarchy were natural, it wouldn't need to be maintained by force.
3. El Matriarcado: Alternativa y Contraste.
El matriarcado se presenta como una alternativa al patriarcado, aunque su definición varía. Algunos lo ven como el inverso del patriarcado, mientras que otros lo describen como un sistema fundamentalmente diferente, basado en la equidad, la comunidad y sin jerarquías de dominación.
- Patriarchy means repression against those who aren't men. Matriarchy is equity for all.
- Matriarchy isn’t the opposite of patriarchy. It’s an entirely different structure. Where patriarchy is linear, matriarchy is circular with the most vulnerable (including children) in the centre.
- There's no evidence that there's ever been a matriarchal society, which would comprise women oppressing men as men oppress women under patriarchy. The alternative to patriarchy is partnership (actual democracy).
- I believe that matriarchy is the natural form of human society women are the carriers of civilization and community, not just every male or female human born patriarchy is a *literal* perversion.
- In patriarchy , women put men first. In matriarchy women put children first.
4. La Persistencia y Efectos del Patriarcado.
Se reitera constantemente que el patriarcado es un sistema vigente y profundamente arraigado en la sociedad. Sus efectos se perciben como duraderos y responsables de estructuras de poder, violencia y desigualdades que han perdurado a lo largo de los siglos.
- The patriarchy is alive and well.
- The more i seek to understand about patriarchy, the more i realized how deeply engrained it is in our society. Men have held systematic power for literally thousands of years.
- The only reason patriarchy is so hard to topple is because it's been around so long, but nothing lasts forever.
- Patriarchy is still one of the fundamental structural problems in our societies. It remains the breeding ground for sexist thinking and the blueprint for power from the top down.
- The patriarchy doing everything it can to protect itself from progress.