{"id":65,"date":"2009-07-15T07:29:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T11:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:49:38","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T21:49:38","slug":"qotd-the-matriarchy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/07\/15\/qotd-the-matriarchy\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Matriarchy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>[Alan Oak]: In a correspondence with feminist scholar Sylvia Kelso, published in <em>Women of Other Worlds<\/em> (1999), you wrote:<\/P><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere has anyone experienced a matriarchy for test comparison?\u201d you may ask. In fact, most of us have, as children. When the scale of our whole world was one long block long, it was a world dominated and controlled by women. Who were twice our size, drove cars, had money, could hit us if they wanted to and we couldn\u2019t ever hit them back. Hence, at bottom, my deep, deep suspicion of feminism, matriarchy, etc. Does this mean putting my mother in charge of the world, and me demoted to a child again? No thanks, I\u2019ll pass . . .<\/p>\n<p>This leads me to another thought [. . .] Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. Nothing is more likely to set any subordinate\u2019s back up, whether they be male or female, than for their boss to come the \u201cmother knows best\u201d routine at them. We need a third place to stand. I\u2019m just not clear how it became my job to supply it.<\/p>\n<p>Lois McMaster Bujold, interviewed by Alan Oak at <a href=\"http:\/\/womenwriters.net\/june09\/paladin_interview.html\" target=\"_blank\">WomenWriters.net<\/a>, 2009-06<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Alan Oak]: In a correspondence with feminist scholar Sylvia Kelso, published in Women of Other Worlds (1999), you wrote: \u201cWhere has anyone experienced a matriarchy for test comparison?\u201d you may ask. In fact, most of us have, as children. When the scale of our whole world was one long block long, it was a world [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41],"tags":[374,1023,375,139,42,43],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","tag-children","tag-loismcmasterbujold","tag-parents","tag-psychology","tag-sociology","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30681,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/30681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}