right but we're black people b. so intraracially speaking you actually believe that black men have historically deemed black women to be inferior, useless, and beneath them?
and then on top of that black men created laws to subjugate black women?
I think all men in all cultures have struggled with thinking women are inferior, useless or beneath them. Traditionally, African cultures have had healthier understandings of gender roles in spite of a few . Many of our historical cultures had matriarchies and entire lineages of queens. Birth control actually originated in ancient Egypt and they were one of the most progressive societies in the ancient world. Many ancient West African kingdoms had entire female business guilds and I won’t even get into the Kandakes in East African kingdom of Kush.
Actually, a similar pattern can even be seen in ancient middle Eastern culture prior to Judeo-Christian and Islamic influence. Same can be seen in ancient Asian cultures, and Indigenous cultures as well. Contrary to popular belief, the earliest ancient societies were highly respectful of women and egalitarian. We came to this “get back in the kitchen, bytches is useless shyt” relatively late in the history of humanity. Why? Bc the might is right paradigm isn’t sustainable. I dunno why we too stubborn or stupid to see that.
Europeans were primarily the ones who struggled with gender issues because they had strong gay cultures in Ancient Greece and Rome and in nomadic cultures. A little of that trickled into Christianity with the elimination of the feminine divine and emphasis on father/son/holy spirit. Once these religions spread, the cultures they influenced became increasingly unhealthy in their gender relations.
The extent to which we as a people have been forcefully inducted into white people’s flawed latent homosexual “Iz da man, I’m better” gender relationships means that black men and blank women picked up many of those unhealthy ideas. Black males are the most progressive of all races imo but still struggle in some areas and several decades of misogyny in hip hop, glorification of pimp culture, fukk deez bytches culture hasn’t helped.
As for the last statement about creating laws, you don’t have to be a ruler or have absolute power to exert control over others, oppress them, attack them, mistreat them, hold toxic ideas about them which negatively influence your relationship with them. Anybody can bully so the idea that black men need the same level of power that white men have before they can be held accountable for some of the harmful attitudes they have towards their own women is ridiculous. Power is relative. I’m not the president of the U.S. I have virtually no power, but if I have children, does that preclude me from having the ability to abuse them?
Similarly, blk women are one of the most powerless groups in America but some of their behaviors contribute to the oppression of themselves and blk men.
So I never understood that line of reasoning. In fact in some cases, lack of access to power creates the need in some to abuse others.
So yeah. There are some Blk men who absolutely have bought into harmful ideas about their own women and adopted white people’s issues and some have viewed abuse of their own women as a stepping stone to success in a white world. Kinda like Heaven Scamuels. Nothing is more popular than making a blk chick cry. It’s like a right of passage for fame in Hollywood.
No dark butts! Amirite