11 Feb
2001
11 Feb
'01
10:50 a.m.
Fiona wrote:
Well, there are a fair few female persons in positions of power in UK society, too, and that doesn't make it any less patriarchal-- just as
having
some African-Americans in positions of power does not make the US any less racially stratified. IMO, anyway...
That's entirely different. There's good evidence that UK society was overtly patriarchal less than 100 years ago, and so one needs a reasonable mass of evidence to counter the idea of it being so today. (Leaving open the question of whether it is or not.)
In B7 times, we don't know much about the history between their present day and ours, so the question is a good deal more open and smaller amounts of evidence might be assumed to settle it against patriarchy.
Tavia