Heroes

So who wants to either discuss Heroes here, or tell me who's regularly posting about it so I can build a filter for Mondays? ^_^

[insert smug comment about matriarchal superiority here]

From fl_wizardess:

( ... in one of the world's matriarchal cultures, it's women who do the asking, and once they have, men are powerless to say no. )

Please note that the Protestant church contaminating the local culture is not preaching an actual Biblical position, but the English Victorian-period interpretation of Semitic gender relations. Way to be Christian, you missionaries. Tell me how white dresses and veils relate to the message of Christ.

Fun with Google!

• Meghalaya, India: "If I marry and go to my wife's house, I have to be under her control and under the control of her mother, all because I am living in her house. I am a servant really -- just a breeding bull." (See also: Garo tribe)


• Missy based the desert culture in her Xena episode, 'Legacy', on the Tuareg


• The first letter addresses some (deliberately) overlooked Chamoru (Guam) cultural history


• 'Does Patriarchy Benefit Women?' (One word answer? NO. But that's just me. Sooo many false conclusions....)


• A Native Mexican culture where daughters are particularly valued


• ZOMG MATRILINEAL CULTURES ARE ONLY OUT TO KILL YOU WITH NANOTECH!!1!


• The key to Minangkabau matriarchy, according to Dr. Sanday, is found in the ever-present adat idea expressed in the proverb "growth in nature must be a teacher."


• "Although 8% of girls are reported to be missing in China, this is not reported to be the case in Mosuo territory."