Please Join Us for the PolitiSage Series: Misogyny, Terrorism and the Manosphere

Deep dives into the rise of militant anti-feminism and our ancient equal-rights, egalitarian past.

It feels normal for us to look at the images from ancient cultures—Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Babylonian, Vedic, Chinese—and see gods and goddesses together. In the image above, from Philae Temple of Isis on an island in the middle of the Nile in Egypt, the goddess Hathor welcomes a pharaoh to the afterlife, unlocking his spirit with an ankh, which was a kind of cosmic “key.” In Egyptian religion, Hathor was the goddess of motherhood, love, joy, fertility, dance, and beauty. She provided spirits in the afterlife with food and drink. She was also, along with the goddess Nut (pronounced “newt”), a sky goddess, and the Lady of the Western Mountain.

What is less obvious—what goes by us all the time though it’s right there in plain view—is that the presence of the divine feminine, of egalatarian culture, of a way of living in which neither gender oppressed and bullied the other had to be forcibly stamped out and replaced with patriarchal systems that stripped women of political and social and religious rights—and rites—and elevated men to the rulership of everything: government, religion, home, society, money and power, life and death.

It actually took some time for the shift to occur—hundreds of years. In fact, most of a millennium. It was ushered into place by a confluence of technical developments, the rise of city-states, and the attempt by men to control and use women in antiquity, women being the major producers of all crafts and valuable products and therefore the major source of all wealth.

The patriarchy was born. It is perhaps this planet’s premier system of privilege. And if we know anything from the experiences of the last century, privilege sustains itself at any cost—even at the cost of violence.

This new series will explore out past, our ancient heritage, and in doing so lay to rest with utter finality any notion that male over female has anything to do with the “natural order of things” or “biology.” It does not. It has to do with the lust for power, wealth, and freedom from having to do the dirty work—and the absolute determination to keep it.

Sometimes this series is going to be fun. Rupert Chapman—a Levantine archaeologist and curator emeritus of the British Museum—will be exploring the cultures of the Neolithic period that were egalitarian—and I will join him to talk about the mythologies and religions of many ancient cultures, including the Greek and Egyptian cultures and the magnificent civilization of Knossos on the island of Crete. These are the posts that are going be fun and incredibly enlightening as we “relearn” who we have been for most of our evolution.

No, it wasn’t always this way! And no, there wasn’t always a patriarchy.

Then, there are going to be articles that are hard to read—but their information is critically important if we are to protect our daughters and granddaughters from the siege being planned by Project 2025, already in process in the Supreme Court, and already underway in the manosphere on the Internet. It is as dark a threat to women as I have seen in my lifetime, and the worst since the Inquisition.

This series will be for paid subscriber only for four reasons:

(1) Every time I post something like the articles we link below, I get attacked by Radical Right Christians aligned with Project 2025, or

(2) I get attacked by Incels, MRAs, Pick-up Artists, Proud Boys, Three Percenters, or White Supremacists—who have racism and misogyny joined to anti-Semitism and anti-Islamism—who start off by calling me the C-word and move lower from there, and

(3) People like this aren’t going to want to give me a valid credit card number because it makes them easier for the FBI to arrest them in the event I get knee-capped at some point. …

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(4) It would definitely help us out to have a little more financial support. 95% of our folks are free subscribers, and we actually love that, but writers have rent to pay, too, so it’s definitely time to ask for a little help.

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PLEASE NOTE: MEN ARE DEEPLY, WARMLY WELCOMED TO THIS DISCUSSION. There are great men out there everywhere—men are who are spectacular fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, and we welcome every one of you.

And now we want to share our first three articles, which went out free to everyone. Please read them. Please share them—and this post. We hope you will find them enlightening, join us or upgrade as a paid subscriber, and stick with us for what will be a sometimes tough, always illuminating adventure.

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