RyansWorld: Matriarchy

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There is a possibility that societies will gradually become matriarchal; unless a conservative Christian America can transform the CIA into the Ministry of Love and somehow prevent women from gaining more civil rights in the United States of America. A Conservative Christian America would allow police officers to kill alleged suspects instead of prosecuting them and turn firefighters into people who burn buildings and books containing information that would be useful to the cause of matriarchy and global unity.

Less intelligent teenagers are content with basic studies, becoming a househusband and changing their kids' diapers while their smarter peers will colonize Mars in addition to other planets and galaxies. However, a matriarchal society might ban alcohol because it causes violence to the user's body. Diaper changing stations are only available in the men's changing room; as there are more househusbands than housewives by the year 2050.

History
Traditional gender roles - patriarchy - has been the norm since the beginning of civilization, although there has been exceptions to it. In the late 20th century, people began questioning traditional gender roles. As the 21st century progresses, traditional gender roles were slowly reversed, as more liberated women entered leadership and high-paying professional positions workforce and househusbands stayed at home to provide the neccesary services that their successful professional spouses required. More housekeeping roles will eventually be assigned to males as society evolves into a worldwide federal government with a matriarchal society.

Traditional gender roles have resulted in a gender barrier which exists solely to discourage women from training and eventually acquiring well-paying "traditional male jobs" (engineers, lawyers, doctors, politicians, businesswomen, corporate executives, professional athletes, etc.).

Since the 1960s, the women's liberation movement has struggled to give women the same civil rights as men. Whether it be voting rights in a third world country or equal employment opportunities, feminists have lead the way for women to become corporate executive, lawyers, and even sports athletes. The logo of the women's liberation movement is a female gender symbol with a fist inside of it. Television shows in the late 1960s and early 1970s have made comedic gestures about women's lib, but later shows have accepted it into their daily life. Some women's liberation movement people even believe that God is female.

Changing of the tide
By the year 2010, 142 women were graduating college for every 100 men. By 2015, this number would sore to 220 women for every 100 men. A major event occurred when the United States made a decision to bring back conscription for mandatory military service. This decision was made in order to fulfill the manpower needed to fund the War in Afghanistan. While men and women both were serving in the war, the decision was made that men would be the ones subject to conscription.

Meanwhile, the Great Recession was taking place worldwide. Unemployment would soar to 12% by 2011. With many men off fighting in the war and women graduating at higher rates, more and more professional jobs were now being taken by women. At the same time, many married couples were already seeing women go to work and men take assume the primary caregiving role.

The non-commissioned ranks of the military are still dominated by men, but women hold the majority of high-command positions and commissioned officer ranks.

The war ended in 2015 and many men would head home only to find that it would be very difficult to get a job. Many men would either marry or move in with a woman, but now it was clear women were dominating the jobs in the economy. By 2018, for the first time in history, there were now more male Stay at Home Dads then Stay at Home Moms. In 2020, the Canadamerica's first female Prime Minister, Jill Tynan, was alarmed that while men were the primary caregivers, they were still leaning on women to handle the household chores. With the help of a female dominated Parliament, Tynan passed the "Household Act" which imposed legal penalties including fines and imprisonment for men who did not fulfill the household chores while women worked.

Matriarchal society
By the 22nd century, a matriarchal society will be a world-wide federal government run completely by women. This movement started in the year 2001 when the world's first matriarchal marriage was historically recognized around the world. Ms. and Mr. Christina Ellison would later become trailblazers to marriages across the 21st century and beyond. Since only a patriarchal society would be neo-puritanical, a matriarchal society would pose no restrictions on sexuality or dating, and would be considered to be libertarian by late 20th century standards. Ethanol and solar power would be used instead of fossil fuels and all motorized vehicles will be driverless. Alcohol would not be banned, but would contain some type of encoding that would sense when the imbiber's BAC (blood alcohol content) reached a specified danger point (possibly .10 to .12) and would automatically reformulate itself to become a non-alcoholic drink at that point.

The matriarchal society will not insist on outright bans on specific behaviors and on specific products. However, matriarchal society will impose criminal penalties on men who insist on resisting the new realities, as well as on men who commit other crimes against women.

Summary
It will become common etiquette for a man to adopt his wife's surname in marriage by the end of the 21st century if he has no post-secondary degree and/or a career in a certified profession (athlete, doctor, lawyer, etc.). Inner-city districts may be dominated by Mega Skyscrapers; home to thousands of poor residents. Many suburban regions will become dominated by househusbands and female service workers.

Love and romance will be declared redundant as the government develops an AI system that automatically appoints two local people of the opposite gender to marry on their 21st birthday. Both spouses would share common background, compatible personality traits and interests, along with belonging to the same socioeconomic standing and political preferences. This will basically nationalize the services that a website like EHarmony.com does now for Americans and makes it mandatory.

Free from the bonds of conservative tyranny that has held them for more than a century, teenagers will become low-level politicians (i.e, aldermen, mayors, Members of Parliament), poker champions, horror movie fans, breadwinners, corporate executives, and eventually wealthier than their parents. Society will assume that the husband will adopt the wife's surname by the year 2050 (unless he plays professional sports or has a job that requires a post-secondary diploma) and everything will be catered around getting the husband to adjust to his new role as his wife's helpmate.

The end result of a globalized matriarchal society would be an all-female global parliament under the guise of the United States of Earth. By the year 2105, women will hold all the government positions, dominate the intelligentsia, and become the legal head of their households. Men will be forced to become househusbands and they will not be allowed to vote in elections or hold a political office.

Matriarchal marriage
A matriarchal marriage is a marriage where the wife is considered to be the head of the household and the sole source of employment-related income. Also in a matriarchal marriage, the husband takes the wife's surname, i.e. Ms. and Mr. Jane Doe instead of Mr. and Mrs. John Smith. The first recorded matriarchal marriage was during the year 2001 in Ohio where Joseph Harkless and Christina Ellison became Ms. and Mr. Christina Ellison. By the year 2045, all married persons under the age of 35 will be expected to be in a matriarchal marriage.

Ms. and Mr. Christina Ellison are a model couple of the future. They are united through a matriarchal marriage and Christina is considered the head of the household. It is unknown whether this couple currently has children or not. In 2001, the marriage caused controversy and the groom's name wasn't changed over to Ellison until 6 months after the wedding day. Mr. Christina (Joseph) Ellison is assumed to be a househusband while Ms. Christina Ellison probably has a well-paying job that allows her to dominate the household affairs. In the future, all women will be liberated women, and expect men to take their last name. We are approaching a maternalistic future where men are prohibited from voting, running for political office, and owning real estate, and this is one of the first steps towards this brave, new world.

Husbands will adopt this mantra in their lives: I am subordinate to my wife because she is the head of the family; just as philosophy is the head of scientific endeavors. A man is never to be independent of female authority. First, he is under his mother’s authority, and then under his wife’s authority. A widower would be under his daughter’s authority, or, if he had no daughters or his daughters were young, he would return to his mother’s authority unconditionally.

Reproduction
As a method of reproduction, human cloning will eventually supplant sexual intercourse for reproductive purposes, just like nanotechnology will gradually supplant traditional agriculture so that foie gras and caviar can be grown for the masses instead of the wealthy elite. However, sexual intercourse will remain for pleasure purposes for the matriarchal hedonistic society of the not-so-distant future. Artificial womb technology is also a part of reproductive cloning, because a woman can freeze her eggs at 25, have a career, then have the eggs unfrozen and placed in a artificial womb when she decides to become a mother.

Matriarchy on Mars
Colonies of Mars will probably be matriarchal and ultimately rely on male pregnancy to realize the goals of their society.

Husbands will adopt this mantra in their lives: I am subordinate to my wife because she is the head of the family; just as philosophy is the head of scientific endeavors. A man is never to be independent of female authority. First, he is under his mother’s authority, and then under his wife’s authority. A widower would be under his daughter’s authority, or, if he had no daughters or his daughters were young, he would return to his mother’s authority.

Mental health
Many men who underwent the change to a matriarchal society had difficulty with the adjustment. To help them, the matriarchal society sponsors a massive educational support program. Men learn to accept their new role in society and to gain new purpose in serving and pleasuring women. The program was a massive success, with male and female health and happiness increasing markedly from 2010 to 2030.

Maternity leave
With men assuming a primary caregiving role, the idea of an extended maternity leave would vanish. Unless there were complications from childbirth, women would have to use normal vacation days when choosing to have a child. A woman would almost immediately turn the child over to the father to handle the primary caregiving of the infant.

In those rare cases where both the man and woman worked, it was assumed the man would quit work to stay at home unless there were special circumstances where the woman could not work.

Breastfeeding
With most women assuming the role of family breadwinner and men as primary caregiver, it became increasingly more difficult for women to breastfeed their children on a regular basis. As a result, more women would make use of breast pumps to pump breast milk for their infants. This led to an increase in the sophistication and technology of breast pumps and breast milk storage devices, so that men as primary caregivers could feed their babies breast milk as fresh as posssible.

By 2030, the use of the "breast vest" soon became very common among stay at home dads and househusbands. These vests would attach to a portable breast milk storage device and would contain two simulated breasts with nipples. This would allow men to breast feed their babies as close to the way women traditonally have done it.

Fashion
Fashion would undergo changes as well. With traditional gender roles changing, many women still wanted to be in touch with their femininity. As a result, skirts and dresses would make a major comeback in 2030.

Meanwhile men, in an effort to look nice for their wives, would start to wear clear lipstick. It soon became very common for men to wear aprons to keep their clothes looking nicer. Men who were breastfeeding using a breast vest would start to wear oversized shirts to keep comfortable when wearing a breast vest.

Gay relationships
Lesbian marriages would triple between the years of 2010 and 2020. When Prime Minister Tynan made it mandatory for men to stay at home and look after the children and do the household chores, she put provisions in for married lesbian couples. Under Tynan's "Household Act", it allowed for one lesbian partner to assume a full-time stay-at-home homemaker role, but also left the option for both lesbian parents to work.

Gay marriage would decline 45% between 2010 and 2020. When Tynan's policy went into place, it provided for a public service jobs for one of the gay spouses to take on some level of employment. These would be menial tasks and would only be open to one gay spouse per household.

Sex life of couples
With women now taking a more dominant role in relationships, there was an increase in anal sexual intercourse. More women began to use dildos with strap-on attachments. This would also become a form of birth control among couples who found this form of intercourse to be a suitable alternative to traditional intercourse.

BDSM was also a common practice around 2050. Chastity devices would be commonly used by women to discipline their men. These devices would also incorporate anal plugs, and sometimes cock-rings. These plugs and rings could also have vibrators built into them, so that the woman could train her man, but also use these devices for both disciplining their men and also for pleasuring them at times when it suits the woman.

It was very common for women to have sex with multiple partners, with the men generally taking a more submissive role. When such events occur, the man will be respectful to his woman's other partners, and will often be engaged by her to help pleasure both her and her partners in whatever ways she requires. A woman with a male partner can at any time take a lesbian partner and the man will be expected to serve both women as if he were married to them both. They will both be allowed to control him in any way they require.

Self-masturbation among men increased greatly - particularly after the Household Act was passed. Many women were extremely unhappy with this, especially conservative mothers and grandmothers. In 2040, masturbation would be outlawed in Canadamerica. Househusbands and stay-at-home fathers were now required to wear chastity belts throughout the day and only would have them unlocked at the wife/partner's discretion. Adolescent men were required to enrol in community-wide activities teaching them things like civic duty, responsibility, social obligations, physical exercise, and learning new languages in lieu of masturbation.