Magic Goddess

Why it doesn't convince you in female superiority

I used to be opposed to the idea of matriarchal prehistory. I thought that it’s naive and the fact that it’s advocates made a piss poor job of defending their position didn’t help. They were talking about female connection to nature, sacred creation of life and, most importantly, the goddess. Well if I have a unique connection to nature why am I not feeling it? If my existence is about creation of life, why does the idea of “creating life” fill me with nothing but dread and disgust? And women are no strangers to being put on the pedestal, reduced to their reproductive function or an idea, so there was nothing attractive about that either.

I didn’t buy into the idea until I came to it on my own, from a different angle. So if magic goddess and sacred birth arguments do nothing for you, I’m here to tell you that none of the aforementioned esoterics are required for matriarchy to make sense.

Before we begin: Keep in mind that I don’t claim to know prehistory and this is not a history lesson. Things did not happen exactly the way I describe them. I’m reconstructing the logic of the life before “civilization”, performing the least amount of mental gymnastics possible and using what I know about animal and human societies.

So imagine that you’re an ancient person. Monogamy and nuclear family are not invented by men yet. There’s no reason for them to exist. Forming pairs is generally what birds and small animals do, i.e the species that are solitary or at the mercy of their environment, because they can’t always rely on their tribe and for them it’s more prudent to form one strong bond than many less-strong ones. Forget patriarchal bullshit about women having to prostitute themselves to men for their protection since time immemorial. Humans are most closely related to the apes that are not monogamous and who raise offspring communally. Humans have practices this way of life well into middle ages and some tribes still do. If monogamy was natural for humans, men wouldn’t need to genocide women and deny them the means of survival to force them into marriage. Exclusive heterosexuality is also not invented by men yet. Just like pure monogamy, it doesn’t exist in nature. The strategies to weaken and divide women are not invented by men yet because there’s no point in weakening and dividing the group you depend on for survival.

Which is a long way to say: women aren’t the property of men, but equal and strong members of the society, because that’s what women are when they’re not subjected to dozens of artificial restrictions imposed by men who are jealous of their power.

What female power, you ask? You promised to not go into esoterics, you say. Well, I’m not doing it. Of course it’s hard to believe that being female can make you powerful when you’ve been convinced that women are just inferior castrated men, weakened by their small bodies and burdened by pregnancy. When you believe that ancient women were cattle and spent their entire lives being pregnant with rape babies because you assume that the restrictions and lies that weaken and divide women are natural and hae always existed. When childbirth and childrearing are taken for granted and reduced to some non-labour. When you’ve been taught to only see power in brute strength and ruthlessness, i.e violence, the thing men do best. But power is what men are jealous of. Power is what men are constantly hung up about, what they fetishize and what they chase, what they steal from women and try to mimic. They are not jealous of your womb per se. They’re not jealous of your ability to create life per se. These things you still have. You don’t have the power that they used to naturally give you.

Let’s return to our ancient society now. Females have a bigger role in raising offspring because it’s simply their offspring. A man can ejaculate and die for all everyone cares, it won’t affect the child. A mother is obvious and straighforward, a father is a social construct and it requires quite a lot of artifical support, such as: exclusive straight bonding, the awareness that straight sex leads to childbirth, the knowledge that a child is made with a man’s sperm, and only one man’s, and that it’s, like, VERY IMPORTANT whose sperm it was. You could say, but family resemblance. Again don’t assume that humans naturally know biology, or that it’s impossible to explain it through magic or religion, or that they would even make a big deal out of it.

Also, females tend to associate with each other because you gravitate to those who are similar to you. This is the case with many mammals. Forget “opposites attract” patriarchal bullshit. If it were not so, men would not need to apply crazy amount of effort to break female bonds and associations, to devalue, deride and outright persecute them. Oh no, the cause of “homophobia” is not “xenophobia”. You can’t be xeno phobic about something that was common in your own and other species even before homo became sapiens. If opposites attracted more than similars, none of this would have needed to happen. Likewise, males associate with males. This didn’t change.

Now. We’re getting closer. We have established that women were raising offspring together. When someone raises you, you are more likely to perceive them as authority than for those who did not raise you. When you raise someone, you have more influence over their values and behaviors than those who don’t. Girls raised by women stay in the community, with those they’re most closely bonded to. Boys leave their mother to join the male community that they aren’t as closely bonded to. And while all males regard their mother as authority, no females regard a male as a bigger authority than their mother. Female community, therefore, has influence over the values and behavior of the entire group, and has stronger bonds. And that’s, ladies and gentlemen, how women have power.

And that’s what the entire patriarchy is dedicated to destroying and mimicking, with sex roles reversed. Women giving birth to each other is a natural line. Men are the side branches. Men created the idea of a father. Men devalued the role of mother and overvalued the role of father. Men defined bloodline as the line of fathers. Men achieve “lineage” by passing down their “family name”, i.e naming their wives “wife of John” and their children “child of John”, it’s purely linguistic. Men traumatize women and suck them dry of all joy and energy to alienate them from their own children and prevent the mother-child bonding. Men treat mothers with disdain, equate women to dirt and ascribe all kinds of negative qualities to them while exalting themselves to prevent anyone from respecting women and mothers and seeing them as authority. Men destroy women’s bonds to isolate them and turn them into easy prey. Men ridicule and spit on women’s bodies and reduce them to dick receptacles to make women disgusting to themselves and to each other.

Which is why it is unwise to give birth to anyone now. The child will not be yours. He will be your Nigel’s. In the eyes of the male-dominated society, every move you make will be wrong. You will be on your own. If the child is male, there’s a chance he will kill you when he grows up, or worse. If the child is female, she’s likely to be raped and abused. The male corporate system will punish you as well.

You will not be rejecting your ultimate female destiny. You will be keeping your freedom and dignity. What about survival of the specie, you ask? Well, I know this idea is hard to relate to for many, but I see no point in helping the perverted male society survive. And if this survival also demands my personal domestic and sexual enslavement to a man and a good chunk of my health, even less so. An unborn child will not complain that you will not give birth to it, and you will die anyway, child or no child.

So, I hope I have shown you how matriarchal prehistory does not imply that you should worship the goddess, give birth or feel mystical connection to nature, nor that it will be restored by such means. The main condition of matriarchy is a strong and independent female community. Therefore, the real sacred magical duty of a woman is to liberate herself from men and their lies and to form strong bonds with other women.