A very strange (and kind of scary) person is fantasizing about the matriarchal society:
As a child, you would not have to fight with your sisters or brothers for your father’s or your mother’s attention. Both girls and boys would be equally loved and cherished by their mothers and grandmothers and by their uncles and great-uncles. Both girls and boys would know that they would always have a place in the maternal clan. As a boy or a girl you would never have to “separate from” or “reject” your mother in order to “prove yourself as an individual” or in order to “grow up.” You could grow up without severing the bond with the ones who first loved you and first cared for you.
The good news for Carol P. Christ (seriously, that’s how she signs her crap, just go and look) is that such societies already exist and she can move there tomorrow. I grew up in one, so I should know. This is the family structure in all Russian-speaking countries of the FSU. People are not allowed to grow up or separate from the cannibalizing Mommy. They are supposed to serve her needs for as long as she lives. And long past she dies, too. The strangulating umbilical cord is never severed.
Mothers would be helped in the raising of children by their sisters and brothers, by their mothers and grandmothers, and by their aunts and uncles. A young woman pregnant or with a child would never be cast out, nor would she ever be expected to “make it on her own.”
Oh yes. Totally familiar. Irrespective of her age, any woman who gives birth in these countries has to prepare herself for decades of mortal combat with her mother and grandmother for the right to have any say in how she raises her child. Obviously, the father is often chased away completely or, in the best of cases, allowed to be present on the margins in a totally silent capacity.
A young man would not be responsible for “providing for” his children, as this would be the responsibility of the mother clans. A young man would contribute to his clan and would help his sisters and female cousins to care for their children. These children would look up to him as their male “role model.” Men might work with their mothers and sisters in the fields or undertake building projects or take charge of trading with other clans near and far.
OK, folks, this is so recognizable that it’s getting scary. Soviet Union, here we come. This is exactly how it always was and still is in the FSU. Men believe they owe what they have not to their children but to their cannibalizing Mommies.
Whether you were a girl or a boy, a man or a woman, you would always know that you were loved. You would be taught to be loving and generous and to care for others. You would not be taught to compete with others, to gloat, or to hoard.
Yes, yes, yes. No individuality is allowed, no personal space, no life of one’s own. But as compensation, your adoring Momma and Grandma will always be there to teach you and teach you and teach you some more about how better to care for them.
The bad news is that this family structure is crippling and tragic. But hey, I think Carol P. Christ should still go. It ain’t like she is of much use around here.
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