JD Udine and anti-feminism

What stupidity on the interwebes do we see today?

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"Sex and Culture", J.D. Unwin (1934). A study of something like 80 primitive tribes and 6 past civilizations/ empires. It's a very dry read, as he goes through multiple examples from the different peoples studied. The author is a product of his time, so he is not able to completely stop himself from introducing some Freudian BS into his explanations, but the bottom line is: In every example, these cultures began to rise when women were required to be virgins at marriage and to be monogamous for life. All of these cultures began to decline when women were given rights, were not required to be virgins at marriage, when divorce was common, and marriage was in decline. Since this book was published in England in 1934, Unwin describes the degree of sexual decay in his time as being substantially less advanced than it was by the end of other empires. Of course, what we see now in 2016 is quite different from 1934, and exactly matches the behavior of all empires just before their collapse. He also points out that there is a lag of about three generations, or 100 years, between when restrictions on female sexuality begin to decay, and when the effects are fully felt, as the old social structures based on monogamy take time to fall apart. Basically, feminism and female sexual promiscuity are not some new invention, but a typical feature of declining civilizations. Unwin also argues that absolute monogamy doesn't last; that it's always succeeded by a stage of increasing female rights and promiscuity, leading to the decline of the society. The cycle often ends with an invasion from another, patriarchal, monogamous society, and begins again.

Ugh...where to begin. First of the book was about monogamy alone! The author talked about male and female sexuality...and he was working with the tools he had at the time, so he was bound to be wrong. For example, Rome was one of the societies he studied and we know that it didn't fall because of sexual promiscuity but other factors as well. And it is unlikely that Unwin knew very much about the Sumerians in 1935. It wasn’t until the 1940s when there was real movement on understanding the ancient languages used by the Sumerians.
Likewise China until the modern era, ancient Persia, the Incas, the Aztecs and the Muslim states all practiced polygamy, and that's just off the top of my head.
For more info on how MRAs misuse this flawed study, see here: http://ift.tt/1qFXEHT
I should note that some of these guys are Nazis who rely on the Jew Freud, who they also reject, but whose major theory they rely on in this study. My irony meter broke at this.

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