[Astromancer]

When dealing with the term Matriarchy what do you mean?

A) A society were women rule in the same way men have generally ruled in past human societies with men as an oppressed group denied basic human rights and treated as secondary and semi-worthless. Something like Ancient Greece in the time of Plato.

B) A society were women have equal rights with men and are just as likely to throw their weight around as anyone else.

C) A Society were women have real power and authority.

All of these have been used to mean matriarchy. Many societies were woman were clearly second class citizens at best have been called matriarchies by outsiders. Because ancient nomadic Central Asian tribes people needed to have their women be fairly autonomous as a matter of survival, the Ancient Greeks thought the women ruled. The Greek viewpoint was wildly sexist and the basis for the mythic Amazons. As late as the early 1960's many British conservatives held that American women were out of control and had established a matriarchy in the USA. This was generally offered up as a joke, but a commonplace joke that got nods of agreement, mock or otherwise.

Neither ancient Central Asia nor 1950's America was a feminist utopia, but they were called matriarchies for political reasons.

Could you define what you mean by Matriarchu?