Quote Originally Posted by Ironside View Post
And rap culture is coming from feminism and sexual liberation and is totally not related to a subculture that looks down on females and heavily pulling from the madonna and the whore idea. You know, that idea that was very blantant in sexually repressed Victorian England.
Did I say rap music was related to feminism? Take another swing, you might connect.

Rhianna is an atrocious ambassador for women, but her videos get played on Saturday morning shows. THAT tells you something about how permissive the sexualisation of women has become. As to the "Madonna, whore", you missed one "virgin". So great, women used to have three prejudicial states to be classified as now they have two, and "whore" isn't the one that got dropped.

And about marriage, you have a point, but that tiny bit about bloodlines following the paternal line and not the maternal is quite notable.
That makes more sense economically, because the self-sufficient man can be kicked out of the house and become autonomous, but in pre-modern societies women cannot be self sufficient and mothers, they need a man to provide for their children, so in a matriarchal society you will get bigger households, potentially. More significantly, you don't know what a man is worth until he's out from under his mother's skirts, and in that sense having single men on their own in the marriage market and single women in the familial household make it easier for the woman (and her family) to judge the worth of suiters.

Marriage is primarily an ecenomic equation, like most things.