Genuine question, why peope don't want a patriarchal society but wish for a matriarchal one? Isn't it better to just have equality between all genders?

Don't get me wrong, I also don't want a patriarchal society and I understand what are the problems with it, but I never understood the desire to have a "main" gender

[–] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I haven't encountered people really advocating for a matriarchy (except the Barbie movie for some reason) so I don't really think it's a popular belief

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Wasn't the matriarchy in the barby movie done specifically to parody the patriarchy in real life?

They aren't so much advocating for it as using it as an obvious 1 to 1 allegory.

[–] OrnateLuna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yeah but at the end of the movie they reinstate matriarchy and give kens a bit more power, and I found that to be such a 180

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Yea, that movie didn't really explore the problems well, more of just made fun of the whole situation. I liked it about 1/5th as much as most, apparently.

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