Where Does Patriarchy Come From?

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Meghan Sandor

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@smccut 6 ай бұрын

I’m grateful the algorithm recommended your channel. This was very informative.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

I'm glad you found me too! I hope I can keep bringing you informative content :)

@dameanvil 4 ай бұрын

02:30 📚 The video is based on insights from Angela Saini's book "The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality," which explores the anthropological roots of patriarchy and gender structures. 03:40 👩‍⚖️ Women's suffrage in the 19th century, particularly in North America, drew on examples of indigenous matriarchal societies to argue for women's rights, although this perspective was rooted in problematic, racist assumptions. 04:54 🚨 The framing of indigenous societies as "primitive" by early feminists inadvertently reinforced racist colonial ideas, despite their intentions to challenge patriarchy. 06:04 🤔 The concept of progress in European thought placed white men at the top of a supposed natural hierarchy, justifying colonialism and patriarchy as markers of civilization. 08:18 🌍 Anthropological studies revealed that human progress is not linear, challenging the notion that patriarchy is a natural outcome of civilization. 09:55 ⚖️ Indigenous societies often had fluid gender roles and matrilineal structures, contradicting Western binary views of gender and hierarchy. 12:03 📜 Enlightenment philosophy, while shifting perspectives on nature and civilization, still reinforced the idea that women were inherently inferior and in need of male protection. 14:09 🗽 The founding principles of the United States, though radical in some aspects, still perpetuated patriarchal and colonial ideas by viewing women and indigenous people as naturally subordinate. 16:08 🔍 The tradwife movement, which idealizes traditional gender roles, is problematic because it upholds the same patriarchal and colonial ideologies that have historically oppressed marginalized groups. 17:59 🤝 More progressive conservative views on gender differences, while seemingly egalitarian, still fail to challenge the foundational inequalities embedded in societal structures. 20:00 🧠 Gender essentialism, rooted in Enlightenment philosophy, falsely asserts fixed gender roles based on biological sex, used historically to justify inequalities and oppressions. 21:03 🔬 Scientific studies reveal that gender and biological sex are different, both existing on a spectrum; almost no one is 100% male or female. 22:04 🧬 Research shows that the brains of transgender individuals align more closely with the gender they identify with, emphasizing the brain’s role in gender identity. 23:20 🎭 Gender is a social construct, shaped by identity, culture, and personal experiences, not biology; it is fluid and changeable. 24:03 🏳️‍🌈 Gender identity can vary widely, and people can express gender in ways that feel true to them, challenging rigid cultural norms. 24:59 🏛️ The concept of patriarchy is complex and multifaceted, with roots in problematic ideologies used to oppress and control. 26:37 📜 Patriarchy, initially a theory, has been used to build oppressive political and cultural systems, especially during colonization and in modern conservative agendas. 27:35 👥 Patriarchal power uniquely operates within family structures, historically using separation and control tactics that still influence modern laws and practices. 28:34 🏛️ Cultural homogeneity has increased under neoliberal capitalism, similar to the Roman Empire’s expansion, but no empire lasts forever. 29:22 🌍 As current systems collapse, there's an opportunity to build more equitable, inclusive, and protective societies for the future.

@garbtheater 6 ай бұрын

Love the long videos, but this was a nice bite size treat. I’d love a mix of both.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

I love that you called it a bite-sized treat😆 my next one will probably be longer!

@schroedingers_atze 3 ай бұрын

I wish I had seen something like your channel on KZbin ~15 years ago you even listed sources 💚💚💚

@christinecamley 6 ай бұрын

Terrific Meghan! Great video!

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! ☺️

@christinecamley 6 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor 🙂

@gnostic268 6 ай бұрын

This was interesting. Are you Native or a descendant? I'm Hunkpapa Lakota & enrolled at Standing Rock (also with Dakota & Arikara) ancestors My kids are Sac and Fox Nation of Oklahoma (also with Meskwaki ancestors) and Mvskoke Creek-OK (also Hitichi & Natchez) on their father's side. My son is married to a Kiowa/Pawnee/Ioway woman. So there is a lot of diversity between all of these separate tribes ie. languages, cultural traditions and ceremonial practices. Language is one of the ways that we can clearly see via vocabulary where colonial ideas entered our histories. In many tribes, the firced conversion to Christianity deeply affected and restructured many tribes along with residential schools which Native children were forced by law to attend in an attempt by the government to break Native family structures and clans. Thanks to the end of enforced residential schools, the Freedom of Religion Act of 1978 and Indian Child Welfare Act also in 1978, which stopped the adoption out of Native families communities (there was a government program from the 1940s until 1968 that pushed this where 1 in 4 children were removed from their families in many states where reservations were located) in an attempt to again force assimilation...there is a move to decolonize from Christian-oriented patriarchy. There are usually a balance in most tribes between patriarchy and matriarchal traditions because there was much more equality between the sexes.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for weighing in and for your insights! 🩷✨☺️ I’m not Native but I live in Canada so Native issues are near and dear to my heart because of how horrifically our government has treated (and still treats) Native communities. It breaks my heart.

@Jedi_Mind_ 6 ай бұрын

😀hi Meghan, I follow and admire your work . I appreciate when you reference new books to us like the one about the “roots of patriarchy“ I recently finished a book called “romantic outlaws“ a dual biography of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley written by English professor Charlotte Gordon and it literally made me think of you and the lives of the women you write about. It would be so neat if you could do a book review of it , The reason it crossed my mind is because I first discovered you because of the video you made on the enlightenment period in France , and this book takes place right in the middle of it with Mary Wollstonecraft being the first war correspondent sent from England to document the revolution in real time , after she left London after having a job as a translator of French and German into English . One of the German books had an author who espoused obedience to the upper class and women subordination to men and Wollstonecraft cleverly edited that out and inserted her own ideas which critiqued hierarchy and patriarchy into the book and nobody noticed for 200 years ,, and most people in London reviewed the book positively 😀 she was very clever . She lived in France for a while fell in love had a kid ,mastered the language etc. and she wrote sharply about Robespierre so your comment about “Robespierre is a dictator and I will die on that hill“ resonates profoundly . Through Wollstonecrafts memoirs you get a firsthand view of what Ground Zero in France look like through the eyes of an English woman. And I know you are a French history buff and Marie Antoinette aficionado. When she left for Scandinavia to track down a boat full of silver that Robespierre outlawed in France she took time to reflect and write a book called “letters from Scandinavia“ which shattered all kinds of literary genres from memoir to travelogue to philosophical aphorism as well as a kind of introspective self therapy because of what she was going through at the time . A decade later this book would inspire Coleridge, Wordsworth and many other writers to inaugurate the English branch of the romantic movement which I never learned about in school ! She established a school for teaching girls how to read right into arithmetic and a time when all they were supposed to do is dance so I know Wollstonecraft was your kind of woman . Her daughter Mary Shelley basically created the genre of science fiction which is something you never hear and when people do talk they can be dismissive of it although it was the first genre I got into. They triumphed in spite of a lot of hardships and struggles but it was difficult for me to read many parts with regards to the amount of children that died young or women that died in childbirth 😥 Mount of suicides women committed to escape the life of misery ,jumping into the river Thames etc.😢 anyway a review of this book in the future would be neat. And I appreciated your video on astrology, I first discovered Jung through Joseph Campbell’s work. the “collective unconscious“ book was profoundly insightful and I saw your response when you mentioned it, over the years I’ve come to appreciate Caroline Casey’s “visionary activist astrology“ which I was introduced to from sounds true publishing as well as many other scholars at the California Institute of integral studies where they have a program in “archetypal astrology“ . I was curious to know if you delved into any of that work or have any other plans of making videos on said subject ? Elizabeth Springs North node astrology has been one that’s been on my mind lately, next time around my sun will be in Aries as it was in Taurus this incarnation along with my moon as well so a lot of Taurean energy, with a rising Capricorn and Scorpio midheaven. In fact astrological consulting is what helped nudge me into the scholastic path that I’ve always felt most drawn to, The discipline of philosophy has always appealed to me and when I did a sun sign search on all the major thinkers guess who’s in the same club as me, Immanuel Kant ,Karl Marx ,Ludwig Wittgenstein ,David Chalmers ,David Hume ,machiavelli ,max weber John Stuart Mill ,Bertrand Russell ,Soren Kierkegaard etc. etc. I was like “geez they’re all Tauruses“ lol, do you have any more reflections on your specific planetary configurations and how it correlates to individuals in disciplinary fields that you like ? The esoteric connection between astrology and physiology is one that’s crying for you to make a video on it, our western zodiac starts with Aries ,as you know ,the physiological correlation starts at the top of the head , after that Taurus kicks in at the cerebellum and goes into the throat prior to Gemini taking over at the same point that the body “split“ in two different parts representing the door personality of Gemini. And it’s pretty neat seeing all of the singers and public speakers throughout history who had Taurean energy either for good or bad they “use their voice is like a bull uses horns to attract or repel“ is a reflection I saw on an astrological website, they mentioned Malcolm X and Hitler as both being Tauruses used their vocal power to Marshall large groups of people. I would love to hear a video essay with some of your thoughts or reflections on these topics or if you even use the western zodiac I have friends who have explored the Vedic as well as other systems so it gets pretty interesting. Thanks for your time and your videos Meghan we appreciate them. Also are you planning on learning to speak French Meghan, forgive any of my punctuation errors I’m dictating this through the auto speak.

@radjan2006 5 ай бұрын

Thank you Megan, i am learning a lot from you. I am man from a super patriarchal family, i didnt knew better. I wish i heard this before. ❤

@meghansandor 5 ай бұрын

Thank you for doing the work to learn differently now! That’s really brave and it’s not easy and I’m honoured that you found my videos helpful in that journey ❤️

@xjapan3 6 ай бұрын

Thank you for uploading your video. I'm writing to contribute to your discussion. I'd like to include a different approach, about balance. So I will not say that patriarchy or matriarchy are good or bad, because I think a balance is necessary. Having said that, effective communication and flexibility are crucial. I haven't watched your entire video yet, so bear with me! I'd like to say that patriarchy had a role in our history when survival was a priority. In this day & age, I think that opinions from both dynamics could be considered and an agreement could be made. Perhaps there can be an effective harmony if everything works together?

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

The issue with that (which I get into later in the video☺️) is that “patriarchy” never really existed. There were and are societies which are patrilocal and patrilineal but not necessarily patriarchal. Patriarchy as we know it today is a convergence of different European philosophies and doctrines that arose between the 14th and 18th centuries, and it’s been used to build societies that actively oppress women and indigenous and BIPOC folk.

@xjapan3 6 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor Thank you Megan. Enjoy your Sunday. ☺️

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

@@xjapan3 thank you, you too!☺️

@marianease3086 6 ай бұрын

“Schrodinger’s masculinity”!! Haha! That made my day. Thanks for such an entertaining and informative video.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Thank you! :)

@charlierp 6 ай бұрын

Patriarchy is great!

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Sources?

@Alias-ei7ko 6 ай бұрын

@@meghansandorthe infrastructure that supports your life. Men did that. The freedom to do what you want? Men fought and died for that. Your welcome.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

@@Alias-ei7ko sources?

@radjan2006 5 ай бұрын

Patriarchy was not bad at all. I dont have sources at this moment. I use common sense. It were men who fought many wars. The world is still a hostage place and it is always evolving around power. Democracy and international law are no garanty for peace. We see this in the Gaza and Ukrainian war. Thus, i can understand the patriarchy. If the family structure fails and births rate are low, you will be replaced. And the threat in Europe especially is real. I think more in an open dialogue. The patriarchy can learn a lot, and choose for a middle way. Because of the western civilization crises nowadays, clear and fair definitions are needed. It is not rational to fight patriarchy at these times. Thats why i like Megans approach. Beware of a extreme mindset. We also need men. Respect those boys and men who are dying now protecting aur freedom.❤

@charlierp 5 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor Did you ask for sources when you lined up for the 'safe and effective' shot: or did you just trust the free donut?

@LiamLoves 6 ай бұрын

Ultimately, patriarchy is inevitable, there is nothing that can be done about it permanently. We go through cycles, sure but progress is an illusion. I wish that this weren't so, but it is.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Sources? What factors make it inevitable and what peer-reviewed body of evidence currently exists to support this claim?

@LiamLoves 6 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor Material observation. A cursory study of history shows it to be a series of cycles as opposed to a linear upward trajectory. And a question of my own, how would you prevent a patriarchy from overtaking an egalitarian society? The question is genuine, I'm not being facetious.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

@@LiamLoves that's a great question, and I answered it in the video but long story short, through religious and philosophical authoritarianism. "Patriarchy" as we know it today came from a mish-mash of different philosophies and religious reformations that happened in Europe between the 15th and 18th centuries and they were used to justify colonialism and the subjugation of indigenous peoples in colonized lands. There are and always have been societies which were patrilocal and patrilineal, but neither of those things necessarily equal patriarchy in the way that we know it today.

@LiamLoves 6 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor I think I understand now, a mere difference in definition between us. Thank you, God bless.

@mchlle94 5 ай бұрын

@@meghansandor Right, but then the video isn't really answering why patriarchy exists, but more how the specific brand we have today came into existence. I don't believe that patriarchy is inevitable, but the issue is that patriarchal societies tend to colonize and subjugate others by brute force. And then you have to get to the actual root of why that is and how that can work, which does eventually come down to sex differences/reproduction. There is the book "The Power", which I don't really consider that well-written, but the concept is an interesting one. It's about a world in which women suddenly develop (formally dormant) electrogenesis, making them physically stronger than men. Patriarchy is overturned very swiftly, and a matriarchy is instated. The physical reality comes into existence first, and the rest follows.

@HolyRainbowism 6 ай бұрын

Ops, just stumbled over the snowflakes channel. I’ll take a piss and move on.

@clarkbowler157 6 ай бұрын

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@jellypaws4484 2 ай бұрын

Longer form preferred 😢

@ethanmiller5487 6 ай бұрын

It's always been hilarious to me to see feminists talk about all the women that they agree with and completely ignore the women at that same time period that didn't agree. It's literally "Believe all women, accept the ones that disagree!!" Or "Just do what we say because women are right and better than you!" So funny!

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Sources? Also can you point to specific parts of the video where I said or implied that?

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

Also it's "except" the ones that disagree, not "accept."

@ethanmiller5487 6 ай бұрын

@meghansandor You didn't talk about them, which is my source for you not talking about them. Homonyms are hard for everyone, especially us with dyslexia.

@meghansandor 6 ай бұрын

@@ethanmiller5487 you said "feminists" in a general way, so that made me curious about any sources you may have that clearly demonstrate feminist discourse excluding conservative women. This video in particular was not about conservative women, it was about the origins of patriarchy, which is a factual, socio-political and cultural outgrowth of a few different philosophies which converged between the 15th and 18th centuries, and influenced the development of our society...obviously there will be people within that framework who both agree and disagree with it. The point of this video was not to explore the ways in which women and femme-presenting people either align with power structures or rebel against them, it was simply to explore the roots of those power structures themselves. Perhaps at a future point I'll do a video that talks about why some people who belong to traditionally marginalized groups (women, immigrants, etc.) align themselves with the people who oppress them, but that's too complicated a topic to cover in this video.

@ethanmiller5487 6 ай бұрын

@meghansandor Nonfeminist women aren't automatically conservative. They just aren't feminists. That's it. I was talking about the women who don't agree with the idea of a patriarchy existing in the first place. Or even women who agree there is a patriarchy and want there to be a patriarchy. What if some people see those "power structures" as beneficial to everyone? By not including them in your video, you are marginalizing those women. Haven't they had enough? Do you see how emotionally manipulative your mindset is? But those women couldn't possibly be able to think for themselves or have their own personal reasons for their beliefs. All of those ideas came from the patriarchy. Any woman who doesn't see reality exactly like you do is being controlled by the patriarchy! Right? (Sarcasm)