Most people around the world still live in some form of patriarchy, especially those countries that follow the Abrahamic religions, which are the three patriarchal religions that still try to dominate the world today.
Unfortunately, many people believe what patriarchists tell us in order to get us to believe that “the patriarchy” is a huge, inevitable form of social structure that can never be toppled.
Patriarchists want us to believe the Male Myth—the belief that males are, in all ways that count, “superior” to females. In fact, patriarchists go so far as to make everyone afraid of other males, describing them as predators incapable of controlling their animal instincts, which is pure balderdash.
Unfortunately, many people, including feminists, choose to believe that males are “superior” to females in strength and speed, which is what males typically use in their arguments to “prove” that males are superior—superior body strength and ability.
Here are some simple facts that disprove the Male Myth.
The first example requires simple math skills. Take the weight of Olivia Reeves, women’s gold medal winner at the 2024 Olympics who started weight lifting at the age of 12. She weighed 160 pounds when she lifted 331 pounds to win the gold medal. When we divide the weight she lifted by her weight, she is able to lift 2.07 times her own weight.
Compare Olivia’s lift to Lasha Talakhadze’s gold medal lift in the same Olympics. He lifted an impressive 556 pounds, but he weighed 403 pounds at the time. In other words, he was only able to lift 1.4 times his own weight. So, while he lifted a heavy load, Olivia still outlifted him when measured pound-for-pound.
There goes the myth that males are stronger than females. And women are just getting started doing weight lifting throughout their lives.
Again, we need basic math skills to determine that women are much faster than they were in 1922, when women were first allowed to compete in the foot races. Then, despite 2000 years of oppression, Marie Mejzlikova, ran 100 meters in just 13.6 seconds. The male who won the exact same race in 1922, came in at 10.6 seconds, just 3 seconds faster. That’s a pretty impressive performance for the first woman to set a world record for other women.
In 2024’s Olympics, the fastest male clocked in at 9.81 seconds, a modest improvement over 100 years, but Julien Alfred ran the 100 meter dash in just 10.72 seconds—making her run super close to the record for men in 1922, and nearly 3 whole seconds faster than the record for women in 1922.
Just imagine how much faster women will be in the next 100 years, if we achieve gender equality.
So, now that we have the Male Myth busted, let’s look carefully at this thing we call “the patriarchy.”
It’s not really one united thing, even though most feminists feel and talk as though they are fighting just one huge machine.
Instead, if we look at how patriarchies grew originally, we can understand that there are at least four stages of patriarchy: Androcentrism; Patriarchy Leaning; Patriarchy Heavy; and Full On Patriarchy (thankfully, there are currently none of these in the world today).
Androcentrism really just means that the males have taken center stage somehow, displacing women as the center of most of our ancient ancestors’ societies because we all really did start out matriarchal because the only known blood relative we all had was our mother—the woman who gave birth to us—and women were “the creators” and practiced superior magic. I discuss how these societies thought, acted, worked, and eventually broke down because of the prominence of the Male Myth taking hold in my book, Pitiless Bronze, so I won’t go over all that here.
The earliest forms of society that began a shift toward patriarchy—long before humanity determined that males play a role in pregnancy—were androcentric. The males in those scattered societies had earned reputations, probably in the form of extraordinary acts, like saving a whole village from a flood, or fire, or invaders, so began to see themselves, and to convince others, that they were actually more spiritually powerful than any of the women in their communities. I discuss the differences between Female Magic and Male Magic as our ancestors saw it in Pitiless Bronze.
Mind you, most archeologists now admit that prehistoric women, who did so much manual labor—grinding grains with stones, scraping hides, hauling clay for pots, etc, had as much upper body strength as the men. Add that to the fact that many also admit that women were hunters and warriors, not just pretty little things sitting around a fire cooking for the man, and you begin to realize how much bigotry has been imbedded in the common views of ancient history we are regularly fed.
However, the main obstacle these males had to overcome was the idea that women were more spiritually powerful than men. No men could bleed, but not die, for days like women could, so they had to work hard to overcome that cosmic/spiritual connections women seemed to have. To do so, they began adapting female rituals for themselves, inventing menstrual magic through circumcision, for instance, so that, by the time we get to Roman soldiers wearing fascia, they no longer remember that those circumcised penises they wear around their necks “for luck” were actually protective menstrual magic symbols males had created long before them.
Lower forms of patriarchies began to rise after the Egyptians discovered that males play a physical (not just spiritual) role in pregnancy circa 2400 BCE.
Here, I must disabuse you of many false ideas you might be hoarding in your head about sex and pregnancy.
First, it is not patently obvious that only ONE form of sexual contact creates pregnancy, so the many who will sneer and try to make others believe we understand this now basic concept from birth need to seriously think about HOW OLD THEY WERE when they first learned that a man’s penis has to enter a woman’s vagina for pregnancy to occur. There’s a lot more to the story than most parents tell their five-year-olds when they ask how Mommy got a baby in her belly.
Back to the ancient Egyptians and their discovery. After observing swans, the only domesticated monogamous animal, have sex, produce eggs, have more sex, produce more eggs, and hatch them—a process that only a few hunters would have observed when the swans were wild, ancient Egyptians finally realized that only one type of sexual contact could be responsible for creating pregnancies circa 2400 BCE.
Sex, remember, was rampant among humans—all kinds, even pedophilia, but I also cover all those types of sexual encounters in Pitiless Bronze, demonstrating why our ancestors did not figure out males’ roles in pregnancy for so long. It’s important to realize that the ancient Egyptians did not discover “procreation” or the fact that it takes both male and female to create a fetus when they observed the swans. They only confirmed that heterosexual contact was the only kind of sex that created pregnancy. They ASSUMED then that males were “the creators,” simply planting homunculi as seeds inside women “fertile fields” or wombs.
Procreation, the fact that both genders contribute to pregnancy, won’t be confirmed for another four millennia because males changed the belief system in order to denigrate women from “creator” status to mere “fertile fields” to be plowed. Procreation as a concept won’t be coined/discovered until well after the compound microscope was invented circa 1590 ACE because even the inventor of the first compound microscope believe he was seeing whole little humans in individual sperm cells when he first saw his own semen under his microscope.
After ancient Egyptian males learned they could be “the creators” instead of women, males around the eastern end of the Mediterranean ran with the idea, moving into Patriarchy Leaning cultures rapidly between 2400 BCE and 750 BCE. Sargon of Akkad, who ruled Akkadia from 2334-2279 BCE, invented a spiritual myth about himself that will later be reused as the same origin story for Moses in the bible, but his rule did not push women out of powerful positions. It's not until Law 117 of Hammurabi’s Codes was created in 1754 BCE that a Full On Patriarchy, which only lasted a short time, occurred. Law 117 allowed men to sell their wives and children to pay debts.
Most cultures, even though they were Patriarchy Leaning did not embrace Full On Patriarchy or the idea that all women could be bought and sold, but, rather, adopted Patriarchy Heavy aspects—giving men rights over women, but not to the point of where they could legally sell their wives, daughters, sisters or mothers.
However, after 750 BCE, when both the Pentateuch and The Iliad are written, Patriarchy Heavy cultures truly spread to the point where women were no longer seen as human beings of equal importance to men, not quite chattel, but still useful for creating kinships between “royal” houses when traded. Kidnapping women to make them into wives became a common norm for many cultures, both pagan and Christian, including the Vikings.
We can see how males persuaded females to embrace such Patriarchy Heavy cultures through close examination of “The Book of Ruth,” which is not just about convincing women to embrace a new god—after all, they were being asked to give up their Mother Goddess, Asherah, even though she is never mentioned by name in the Book of Ruth—but this section of the K’tuvim is more pointedly about changing the legal inheritance system from matrilineal (Levite) to patrilineal, something the writers make clear the women approve of at the end.
The social and religious politics involved, then, males convincing their women that ancient women, like Ruth, grandmother of King David, had accepted such a radical change in inheritance systems, so they should, too.
Since 750 BCE, “royalty” has long relied on the patriarchal god, whatever you want to call him, from the Abrahamic religions to justify ruling over their people. To defy a king was to defy god. And the Abrahamic god was vicious, often calling for the sacrifice of children to prove the people’s fear and obedience.
Death, then, became the provence of both kings and gods. Women had little to no say in how their communities lived, but, when they did, things like the Inquisition and the Burning Times came along to strike fear into women’s hearts again, using fear and violence—the primary two tools in the patriarchal toolkit.
The third tool, of course, is lying.
If you still believe males are superior to females, you’ve accepted patriarchal brainwashing.
Still don’t believe me?
Here’s a simple mathematical formula that proves women are superior to men, for those of you who insist on counting.
W equals anything Women can do.
M equals anything Men can do.
Men = Menstruation
P = Pregnancy
B = Birth
M + Men + P + B = W
Do you see it now?
Males have worked for eons to make menstruation a dirty, nasty thing, so much so that many women try to do everything they can to keep from doing it. Some will even stay perpetually pregnant to keep from menstruating. Others use harmful pharmaceuticals to eliminate their cycles. Still others starve their bodies, when often causes amenorrhea.
Menstruation, however, mirrors the moon’s own phases, which is where we get the prefix “men” from, and which is why the US Constitution does not need an Equal Rights Amendment.
Women are men—people who tell time by the moon.
Women are, in fact, extra special men, because we also have wombs—the “wom” part of the Old German word “wommen.”
So, if women are superior to men, why don’t we control everything?
Brainwashing. It’s also called cultural programming, but you can probably blame your parents for your earliest beliefs about what girls and boys can do.
This brainwashing is bad for both genders because males create Toxic Masculinity by eliminating anything that could SEEM feminine from young males, so young males learn to hate the “weaker” more “sensitive” parts of themselves before they learn to hate women.
Thankfully, lots of men have woken up to this fact, and many are taking steps to counter the brainwashing.
Women are making some progress, too.
We need to continue that progress to improve all our lives because well-balanced human beings make well-balanced societies.
Just look at how many people in the States are fighting against the injustice currently being foisted upon us by the patriarchists in power right now.
These patriarchists are afraid. Terribly afraid. Because they don’t want to lose the power that patriarchal lies give them, which is why they have glommed onto Christianity so tightly.
By believing in a violent, malevolent male god who requires a blood sacrifice before he will forgive human beings for being human, they can continue a long tradition—using spiritual fear to dominate.
So you can begin by stopping believing that another human being had to die for your sins. What loving god requires a blood sacrifice?
You can also stop believing in Heaven and Hell.
Earth is the only paradise you will probably ever know.
But patriarchists use the malevolent male god and his threats of Hell or damnation to keep women, especially, in line.
If you feel a deep spiritual connection with the universe, great.
Just be careful who you believe is in charge of the universe, otherwise, malevolent males will continue to make you fearful, thus vulnerable.
So the big thing to fight these malevolent males and their desire to erect a Full On Patriarchy wherein women are bought and sold like cattle is to stop being afraid of men.
Stop believing the Male Myth.
Remember, you are strong. You can defend yourself. You can defend others.
You don’t have to use physical strength to do so.
By keeping you fearful, they win before they even start.
And you don’t have allow others to bludgeon you with Hell and damnation.
YOU ARE ENOUGH. NO ONE CAN REPLACE YOU.
You can stand up for others, and yourself.
We can all be better human beings, and we should EXPECT OTHERS to be better human beings, too.
Doing all these things is how we defeat any form of patriarchy that does not value women as full human beings with full self-determination rights.