In almost every way, this is a society where women rule the roost. They run the households, control the money, and own the land and property, all to be inherited by sisters and daughters.
Probably a product of the US women's lib movement. I'm sure of it. Remember back in the '60s all those freedom march (said they) were after was EQUAL rights. Now we have "affirmative action", AKA legal discrimination. Jim Crow lives and is alive and well in the NAACP!
So just what is wrong with the idea that you get equal rights - -but that's all? No special privileges.
It may sound bizarre to a Western visitor, but anthropologists say because the men have no power, control no land, and play subservient sexual roles, they have nothing to fight over — making this one of the most harmonious societies on the planet. The Mosuo people, estimated to number around 50,000, have no word for war, no murders, no rapes, no jails.
Probably because they never made enough progress to be able to smelt irin for bars.
Geography was a major factor that enabled the Mosuo people to preserve their matriarchal way of life. A few decades ago, it took a whole week for a caravan of mules to reach Lugu Lake in southwestern China from the nearest trading center of Lijiang.
Also helps keep you out of wars. Who do you fight with? There's no one around.
I hear by the grapevine that your wife is planning to move to this place with you.
I won't even ask what the other end of your grapevine is connected to.
The interesting thing would be knowledgeable conjectures about how this developed but have you noticed how often articles (and TV interviews) don't ask the very question you really want to hear the answer to?
Uh, Nooooooo. DO you have this problem often? |
