On another thread here, I disagreed with a supposed feminist who said patriarchy arose coz in her view all males in prehistoric times were super-strong "guardians" and "protectors" who spent most of their time fighting off ferocious beasts and big-game hunting, which she suggested provided the bulk of/nearly all calories prior to agriculture - whilst in her view, all females back then (and now) were/are utterly useless, totally weak and incapable of any physical tasks beyond caring for children and cooking due to having "fragile pregnancies."

I refuted her points, giving a more complex, nuanced explanation for the origins of patriarchy. I also pointed out that most pregnant women are actually quite hardy, and that giving birth is about the most muscular, strenuous feat humans can pull off - it requires enormous physical and emotional strength and fortitude - and that deriding women for our ability to gestate and bring new life into the world the way she does is misogyny.

Again and again, her responses to my posts were that she couldn't be bothered to address my arguments coz I had explained and evidenced them in too much detail at too much length.

Her last post to me:

Buddy, if you can't explain your social theory in a couple phrases, it means your theory is bullshit.

But sure, I have the attention span of a gnat. Oh, I hate reading so much I think I better stop reading what you write! See? You totally won. I'm not paying attention to you anymore and this CLEARLY means I have no arguments to make and you schooled me! P.S. I'm also a huge mysoginist, that's why I've been banned from Reddit and why I love hanging in this website instead.

Happy now? Good. Now shoo, kiddo.

This is the new ethos: Any ideas that can't be boiled down to bumper stickers or expressed in simplistic slogans like "TWAW," "trans rights are human rights" and "orange man bad" are bullshit.

Can you imagine if people completely discounted and dismissed all the ideas in all ancient texts - as well as the works of such people as Homer, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Spencer, Thomas More, Martin Luther, John Stewart Mill, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Jefferson, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Lenin, Nietszche, Thomas Chesterson, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, Virginia Wolff, Simone de Beauvoir, JP Sarte, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Dr Spock, Bruno Bettleheim, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, Andrea Dorkin, Nelson Mandela and a zillion others - coz such ideas can't be expressed in "a couple of phrases"?

https://saidit.net/s/GenderCritical/comments/70sg/are_rome_and_europe_the_root_of_patriarchy_in_the/