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> I seriously wonder if this is why we ended up with a patriarchal 'civilization'. Simply because so many women are silently traumatized.

Men are also, in general, significantly stronger physically.

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Patriarchal civilizations only began to outcompete non-patriarchal ones with the relatively recent advent of grain agriculture. There were many hundreds of thousands of years where men were stronger physically and patriarchy wasn't dominant (I mean that some civilizations were patriarchal and others were non-patriarchal).

Right, this rings a bell from an ancient civilizations class that I took decades ago. I wish that I remembered more from that class, but it's been so long. I guess it's time to crack open the text books that I kept.

Always a fascinating Alt-History scenario to me: what if the patriarchal societies didn’t win out early on? How drastically different would history had become?

There's a fantastic (and quite funny!) French film "I'm Not An Easy Man"[1] that sort of explores this idea but from the perspective of what society would look like today if gender roles were flipped. I think it's available on Netflix.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Not_an_Easy_Man

thanks for the recommendation

Funnily enough, I wrote a short erotic story in which the protagonist gets transported from the sort of world depicted in that film to ours. In my telling she leverages her sexual aggression and insight into male psychology to become a successful Twitch streamer.

They didn't early on. They won out late and we are still very much steeped in it. The line was crossed during the "one true God" push where the sun god (single god) creator cults gained state-derived power.

there's an interesting documentary on a modern-day matriarchy, gave me a good idea of what one can imagine in such a situation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_l9D7tEixc

Different in regards to what is probably the relevant question, economic history? Military? Human Genetics? I don't imagine much would look the same.

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