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I think its funny that you mention us still having cavemen levels of designated gender, I've seen references to neolithic and Neanderthal people as being less rigid, example skeletons buried with weapons or hunting equipment designated male until DNA shows they're female, also bodies of tattooed female shamans. I can't point you in the direction of any links yet (I'm in a hospital right now) but I think its assumed that child care, "womens work" keeping the home fire burning and the food cooking was more of a joint community effort with both male/female involvement
Perhaps our ancestors were more accepting of the natural mosiac of gender and sexuality than we are now?
I think the dogma of the Church has destroyed a lot of natural rhythms of human nature, the whole "its Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve" strict gender roles/rules and misogyny, which is ironic as Jesus was always about love your neighbour, do unto others, let he who is without sin etc And let's face it he probably had a wife and female disciples
Its always about power and control to stop the majority overthrowing the rich minority, then as now
So fucking sad
Ya youre right. Apparently in some Oceania tribes in the past and even in India surprisingly non-binary genders were accepted by most people of those societies. I do remember reading an archaeological study where they examined the skeletons of men and women who died violent deaths in the neolitihic era and they found that surprisingly practicslly all prehistoric tribes had men AND women (and probanly non binary people too) who died violent deaths through murder, warfare, and through animal hunts that went wrong where the animal overpowered and charged deep into the person with so much force that it shattered the person's bones in almost equal numbers.
I think it was capitalism and feudalism actuallt are the things that played bigger role than religion in creating the patriarchal, rigidly conservative and 'shameful of sociosexuality and expression' societies thatt most of us live in today . I feel that the bourgeoisie of both of these eras knew that they could make it easoer to make more slaves , moake more soldiers, and more easily control the disenfranchised members of the proletariat if they repeatedly drilled deep into us that that is how our societies oughta run and how we should view gender and we chose to go along with it. It was a decision that has been to our detriment....
And dont get me wrong, I know that religious extremism has caused the needless death, ostracizions, alienations, and suffering of billiins of peoples , ESPECIALLY non-males. Though personally I feel it is actually that class warfare that has always been more important than religious warfare within a society and even between different societies in spurring these barbaric things we did to each other. I feel that the bourgeoisie simply knew that they could use religion as just another tool to cause control over us AND to cause conflict between different members of the proletariat class.... But I dont view religion as THE almighty factor that has led to the world we have today. I see the biggest factors as our complacency to accept the bullshit that the bourgeoisie keep on telling us AND the existence of the bourgeoisie. Even in neolithic era people had religion for the most part, not the massive abrahamic religions we see today but rather things like paganism , animalism, odinism, things like that . And these religions were not able to prevent humans from eventually saying 'Screw it ! I know we're all very differemt but , let's work together and build together to create large agricultural societies' . It is simply when agricultural societies began to form with many slaves and soldiers did a few members of the proletariat start to realize that they can create dynastic monarchies that hold the majority of society with an iron grip through tricknology , cunning wordplay, and displays of militant and even genocidal bravado. And with the creations of these numerous bourgeoisies and their many bribed pig bodyguards did the creation of patriarchal society come into existence since men were seen as the more violent , more militant and 'stronger' of our species so these men were also seen as useful tools to use by the bourgeoisie to keep non-males in check. And with the creation of a patriarchal , dictatorship of the bourgeoisie which we still live in today so did we FINALLY see the binary model of gender. Yet another tool for control by the bourgeoisie. which theyve used to tell non-males that they have to always be 'subjugated' to their male counterparts AND to tell women that the only way a woman can become a ''tRuE wOmAn' s by 'sTArtIng A fAmiLy' and 'DoInG AlL ThE HoUsewOrK aNd ChiLd CaRe FoR hEr MeN' and to always 'tUrN yOur Kid InTo AnoThEr NatiOnaLisTic SlavE Or SolDiEr For thE empIrE'
And yup when you think about it all carefully enough.... you start to see how its always been bullshit from the extrremely rich and politically connected minority to control the anger and violence that the majority oughta have towards them to overthrow them and to prevent the creation of a truly egalitarian , equitable, and inclusive humanistic societu rather than the current bullshit capitalistic and feudalistic ones.