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Going back to the abortion question, BJM said:
<< The idea of seeing "woman as mother" as somehow being LESS than
"woman as whole person" would probably get you killed quite properly
in Esrolia. >>
But what of a woman who doesn't want to be a mother? Would they be
seen as criminal deviants in Esrolia? Or would that just be a
personal choice available to an independent woman?
To go slightly off-topic, one quite interesting fictional depiction
of such a split came in the Cerebus comics, if anyone's familiar
with them. Briefly, one part of this lengthy series dealt with a
conflict between a matriarchal ruler (Cirin) and her
feminist/libertarian Ayn-randish daughter (Astoria).
This also raises the question: if strongly patriarchal societies are
prone towards female infanticide (e.g., Romans), are matriarchal
societies prone to male infanticide? Or strongly opposed to
infanticide at all?
Theo
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