(Not satire) Cannibalism is bad for your health, scientists find
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Turns out most taboos were to prevent things that had observable negative impacts on social and physical health. One of the key ones being keeping the women in line by forbidding them from having the same rights and responsibilities as men. Not out of hatred for women, but because it must have been evident that matriarchal societies were more likely to collapse from mismanagement.
Monogamous patriarchal societies simply outcompete any other setup which is why they were universal until about 100 years ago. I'm sure there are numerous feminist societies from millennia past that are lost to history simply because they got curb stomped by civilizations that give most of their men a reason to invest in society and care about its future.
As to your larger point about taboos, faggotry is the example that comes to mind for me. Faggots are a petri dish of disease and allowing them to go unchecked is a good way to repeatedly create plagues in an era before modern medicine and sanitation. Their dysgenic impact on the culture is just one more reason not to put up with them.
I dated a girl in high school whose father was chief of medicine at a busy hospital. He fucking hated the hell out of queers, told us every chance he could how filthy and gross they were and how basically every one that came through his hospital was always a smorgasbord of STD’s. Pissed his shithead daughter off to no end, but i always got a kick out of it, lol
Not quite. Avuncular societies dominated in illiterate sparsely populated regions like Polynesia and the less populated parts of the Asian steppe where inbreeding was a severe concern. (Avuncular means the maternal uncle raises the kids) Also evidence the preliterate Celts and Latins were that way until the Etruscans influenced them and taught them record keeping. Vestiges existed in ancient Rome even after they adopted paterfamilias, which is why avuncle was still word.(Note that Roman Emperors were more likely to inherit the title from their maternal uncle than their father)
Chesterton's Fence.