Marriage as we know it is a purely patriarchal institution. Because what is patriarchy in its essence? This is the usurpation by men of the female reproductive system. Normally, women (as well as females of other species) decide on their own issues related to childbearing and have power over offspring. Accordingly, this also gives them social power, because they can transfer resources to children and deprive them, they can raise in the right way or destroy their offspring.

The formation of patriarchy occurred when men (thanks to animal husbandry) learned about the role of the male in reproduction. After that, perhaps out of a sense of envy, they had a desire to usurp the functions of females in procreation (production of offspring, possession of them, disposal, protection, ensuring their vital activity, using them for their own purposes).

But in order to fully gain access to the reproductive function, they needed to seize the bodies of females and their will, turn them into an instrument for the realization of their own paternity (whereas in natural conditions it is always and everywhere the other way around, the male is an instrument for the female). Now it turned out that he "gives birth with the help of her."

It is no coincidence that the patriarchal culture persistently uses various ways to consolidate the role of the father and downplay the role of the mother in the creation of children. Such as:
- transferring the father's surname and patronymic to children;
- the legal rights of the father to offspring (up to the complete belonging of the children to the "head of the family");
- the sacralization of the male seed as a grain that falls into fertile soil and gives life (the female uterus here is only a favorable environment for its development);
- as a result, the sacralization of male activity and female passivity;
- deification of fatherhood (God the Father and God the Son, the idea of "fertilization" by God);
- direct suppression ("John begat Jacob ..").

Marriage is a man's way of gaining access and securing rights to a woman's reproductive system. Even now, when in many countries women are no longer legally the property of their husbands, marriage performs the same functions. It enables a man to continue the genus and retain the rights to his offspring.

Marriage is not beneficial for women due to the fact that, firstly, it prevents natural selection from males and the transfer of the best genes to offspring. Instead, the 1 man - 1 woman model operates, and all men, even the most frail, aggressive and ugly, get the opportunity to reproduce. This leads to overpopulation and the degeneration of humanity as a species (which we are now observing). In the case of polygamous marriages (for example, in Islam), selection operates, but it is not carried out by the female, but by the males among themselves. The most aggressive, having captured more resources, have the opportunity to get more females at their disposal.

Secondly, traditional monogamous marriage severely limits the opportunities for raising offspring. If in matriarchal peoples this is done by the woman's brothers, her relatives, and other family members, then in a pair marriage, the entire burden falls on the mother and, at best, she can count on the help of her husband, but this is usually voluntary. Motherhood in such conditions is equal to a long drop out of social life, the return of a huge amount of resources, the development of mental problems in both the mother and the child.

All modern methods of "improving marriage", such as the obligation for fathers to go on maternity leave, state support for mothers, kindergartens, are only cosmetic measures designed to compensate mothers for the inconvenience created by the fact that their reproductive system is used by men in their own interests. That is a more "humane" use, rather than a release.

Women's reproductive rights must be protected, but not through "more equal marriage." Marriage in its form is the protection of exclusively male reproductive rights. The task of women, on the contrary, is to regain the autonomy of their reproductive function, the ability to dispose of it individually. As well as her natural role as a provider, protector and ruler of lives.


Author: Philosopher's Stone of Artémis
Translator: Yulia N.