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April sth, 2014 This Accidental Shows The Superiority Of Patriarchy Exp eriment By Dr_Caveman Share on Facebook Tweet Patriarchy has been extremely successtul, despite its recent vilitication. Most cultures worldwide are patriarchal -to tind examples ot successtul matriarchal societies you either have to tun to ancient history, remote outskirts ot the world or teminist tiction. However, this hasn't stopped the teminist collective trom queeting out books and even a hashtag haiing the end ot patriarchy in a textbook example ot incestuous amplifiation. What patriarchy, atter its apparent downtall, will be replaced with remains to be seen. Hamsterizations aside, there is surprisingy ittle dataavailable about what ite would be like in a society made up ot only men or only women. An enterprising social scientist might want to pertorm an experiment where groups ot men and groups ot women are lett to their own devices, having to work together to survive against the elements and build a civilization from scr convncing ethical review boards that the inevitable suftering ot his participants would weight up against the value ot the data. atch. However, this scientist would have a very h ard time Luckily, reality television is not bound by ethical constraints and once in a while, in its never ending quest tor viewer ratings, reality TV accidentally pertorms a very interesting experiment that social scientists woukd never be allowed to do. Quite a tewyears ago, I had the pleasure ot watching the Dutch version ot Survivor (Expeditie Robinson) with my teminist roommate. That particular season would have two islands, one populated by men and one populated bywomen. My roommate had been promoting that particular series to meand the other students in the house tor weeks because it would show us, according to her, what a society run bywomen -free from the evils ot patriarchy-would be like. And it did. Oh it did. Here is what happened: initially both groups were dropped on their respective islands, given some supplies to get started and lett to tend tor themselves. In both groups there was some initial squabbling as people tried to tigure out a local hierarchy. The men pretty much did whatever they felt was necessary there was no leader giving orders. Men who telt like hunting, toraging or tishing did so. Another guy decided he was ted up with sitting on sand and started making benches. Others built a hut that gradually grew and evolved. Another guy cooked every night. Within days a neat little civilization was thriving, each day being slightly more prosperous than the previous one. The women settled into a routine as well. The hung up a clothesline to dry their towels, then proceeded to sunbathe and squabble. Because unlike men, women were unable to do anything without consensus ot the whole group. And because it was a group otat leasta dozen women, consensus was never reached. During the next tew episodes, the women ate all their initial supplies, got drenched by tropical storms several times, were eaten alive by sand tleas and were generally miserable. The men on the other hand, were quite content There were disagreements ot course, but theywere generally resolred. Eventually, the people running the program decided something had to change. In order to help the women out, three men would be se lected to go to their island. In return, three women would take their place at the men's island. The look on my teminist roommates tace during this episode was priceless. Initially, the three men selected tor the women's island were ecstatic, tor obvious reason. But then they arrived at the island and were greeted by the women. Where is your hut?", they asked. We have no hut' Where are your supplies? they asked, dismayed We ate all the rice And so on. The three men ended up woring like dogs, using all the skills developed by trial and error in their tirst tew weeks -building a hut, tish, trying to get the women to torage. The women continued to bitch and sunbathe. The three women who were sent to the men'sisland were delighted -tood, shelter and plenty ot male attention was treely available. They too continued to sunbathe And that my triends, is what patriarchy is. My tormer roommate, unsurprisingly, is no longer a teminist. Now this might all be atke, awhite raven, an exceptional case not representative ot society as whole. But that particular season ot Dutch Survivor is not unique. CBS broadcast several Survivor seasons in the US where men and women started ott in separate groups. In most cases (the Amazon and One World), the result was the same. The men quickly got their act together, getting access to tood, fire and shelter while the women spent a lot ot time and energy on petty little squabbles, eating their meager supplies, getting drenched in storms and generally being pathetic. The opposite situation, where men didn't get their act together while women quickly built a tunctional micro society, has not yet been observed outside ot teminist tiction, and it probably never will

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