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[–]LilianH 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well it's not just the central/south American cultures, you'd have to include a deeply patriarchal society like China in the mix because it was never colonised by Europe and pre-dates the existence of Rome and in the middle-east, there is significant written evidence of Assyrian and Babylonian laws that enforced patriarchal control of women in marriage, and both of those civilisations predated Rome. Isolated cultures, e.g. Maori in New Zealand were still patriarchal.

They are just playing to the current "queer" narrative that gender roles and biological sex was invented in late Western Europe and pre-European cultures were perfect and equal. It's utter nonsense, there is no evidence to support their claims and they'll never provide any if you ask them.