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Okay, before I start,

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if you want to go research the legitimacy of what I'm about to say,

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please do.

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There is a significant body of archaeological and anthropological evidence

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behind all of it. This video is in a dissertation.

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It's a conversation starter.

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So let's start. Patriarchy is not natural.

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I wanna say that again. Patriarchy is not the natural biological order of things.

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It is not inevitable. It is not hardwired into us.

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It started somewhere, and we actually know roughly when and we know why.

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For the vast majority of human existence,

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hundreds of thousands of years,

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men did not know that they had a role in creating life.

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Think about what that means.

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The only visible, undeniable,

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observable truth of human creation was the woman.

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She bled. She didn't die.

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Her body grew new humans. She was,

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by every observable measure,

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the origin of life. And men knew it.

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We know that they knew it because of what they did about it.

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Male initiation rituals from the Neolithic era

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involved men cutting themselves to simulate menstrual bleeding.

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They were trying to access what women had.

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In Norse mythology, Thor gains enlightenment

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by bathing in the menstrual blood of the primal matriarchs.

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In Greek mythology, the gods drank menstrual blood,

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called the supernatural red wine of Mother Hera,

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to sustain their power.

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The oldest calendar ever found is a bone marked with lunar cycles,

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tracking a woman's menstrual cycle.

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Women invented time keeping by charting their own Bodies.

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For thousands and thousands of years,

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this was the order of things.

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The feminine was sacred. The mother was the centre.

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Creation was hers. Then,

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Roughly 10,000 years ago, through the domestication of animals,

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through watching livestock breed,

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men made a connection.

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They understood for the first time that they had a role in creating life.

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And something shifted almost immediately in the archaeological record.

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You see it. Ownership,

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naming rights over children,

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control over women's bodies.

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Patri. Patrilineal,

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linial inheritance, the accumulation of land and wealth.

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Male gods steadily replacing female ones.

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War as a tool of dominance.

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And here's the part that I really want you to sit with.

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Writing wasn't invented until around 

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3400 B C, by which point patriarchy was already fully in place.

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Which means that virtually everything we call history,

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every text, every religious document,

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every law, every story,

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was written inside the patriarchal era.

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The world that existed before

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it didn't get to write itself down.

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It was already gone. So this is what I'm saying.

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Patriarchy did not come from nature.

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It came from a thought.

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A thought born out of thousands of years of watching women create life

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and having no role in it. No equivalent power,

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no equivalent mystery.

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And when men finally found their small piece of that process,

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they didn't integrate it. They inflated it.

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And then they took over everything.

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That is not biology. That is great insecurity.

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With a huge army. And we Have been living inside of that story ever since. So,

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so long that most of us have never been invited to question it.

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Well, I'm inviting you to question it now.