BALANCE THE WORLD

PRIVATE PROPERTY IS THE WORLD HISTORIC
DEFEAT OF FEMALE SEX.
— Friedrich Engels
With this new concept of ownership came the desire to leave private herds
to the descendants of the owner.
These same men also began to take private ownership over their individual
herds. Prior to this development, the people of the Paleolithic Era had shared
both land and supplies.
Because of this new desire, it became necessary for women to be virgins
before marriage and for them to abstain from adultery after marriage so that
men could be sure their offspring were their own.
With this new control over women began the earliest patriarchal families.
Patriarchy was furthered at the end of the Neolithic Era when women
began to be traded as commodities.
The commodification of women could be seen in arranged marriages between
families or villages, women being forced to have sex with visitors as a deed of
hospitality, and ritual rapes during festivals to insure prosperity.
Women were treated as commodities, and they became accustomed to this
identification from a young age.
Women’s values lay in their reproduction, especially in farming villages. In
these villages, more people were needed to work the land and sustain the
population, so women were expected to produce a large amount of offspring.
Children became an economic asset, and if women were unable to produce
them, they were seen as worthless. The idea of women being good only for
their womb remains even into today’s society.
Patriarchal dominance moved from private practice into public law.
Sales contracts appear in the Bible and the Code of Hammurabi.
Marriage becomes wife purchase.
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