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‘We would do well to think of biological sex, like biological race,’ she suggested, ‘as an excuse rather than a cause for any sexism we observe.’
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
By thinking about gendered inequality as rooted in something unalterable within us, we fail to see it for what it is: something more fragile that has had to be constantly remade and reasserted.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
After all, this is how social transformation usually works: by normalising what would have been unthinkable before.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
ed yong • What Counts as Seeing
By then, feminists and scholars alike were too invested in it for it not to be true.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
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His answer to male domination was a frustratingly tautological one: It was natural for it to exist, and it existed because it was natural.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Female leadership is seen not just among bonobos, but also among killer whales, lions, spotted hyenas, lemurs, and elephants.
Angela Saini • The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
In academic circles the problem has its own name: the ‘matrilineal puzzle’.