While historically most reactions to these taboos was purely based on instinct and not reason
I wish I could find this via google right now, but there's ancient writings from greece or rome, possibly even a play, speculating and ridiculing what would happen if women were allowed to run civilization.
It's exactly what you'd expect - single mothers on welfare, nanny-state shit, foreign men welcomed in with open arms.
Even the idea that this 'instinct' and 'not reason' is false. Any man who has figured out roughly what motivates women can figure out what a woman-run government will look like, and any man who has figured out what keeps a society functioning on an inter-generational time scale can figure out that a woman-run government is a road to slow death.
I wish I could find this via google right now, but there's ancient writings from greece or rome, possibly even a play, speculating and ridiculing what would happen if women were allowed to run civilization.
It's exactly what you'd expect - single mothers on welfare, nanny-state shit, foreign men welcomed in with open arms.
Even the idea that this 'instinct' and 'not reason' is false. Any man who has figured out roughly what motivates women can figure out what a woman-run government will look like, and any man who has figured out what keeps a society functioning on an inter-generational time scale can figure out that a woman-run government is a road to slow death.
The play is "The Assembly women" by Aristophanes.