It may be a chicken and egg thing. Maybe sexual discrimination, sexist repression and misogyny are a reaction to some earlier male catastrophe, and every few th

It may be a chicken and egg thing. Maybe sexual discrimination, sexist repression and misogyny are a reaction to some earlier male catastrophe, and every few thousand years the scales tip in calamity back in that direction, and patriarchy slowly makes gains over centuries until back on top in repressing women, the process repeating when women have had enough.