Comments by "truth-uncensored2" (@truth-uncensored2426) on "VICE Life" channel.

This is a matrilineal society not matriarchal, in Mosuo society men, for the most part, still dominates Religion, Politics and most of the economic matters, women only have a substancial power in the family arrangement. But even then it's not true that this happens in all families, in some families it's the wife's brother (a man) who gives the last word inside the house. This type of videos doesn't show this but there are articles interviewing Mosuo members that give more details about how they truly live.
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This is a matrilineal society not matriarchal, in Mosuo society men, for the most part, still dominates Religion, Politics and most of the economic matters, women only have a substancial power in the family arrangement. But even then it's not true that this happens in all families, in some families it's the wife's brother (a man) who gives the last word inside the house. This type of videos doesn't show this but there are articles interviewing Mosuo members that give more details about how they truly live. The Mosuo are NOT Matriarchal: https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/12/219079/mosuo-women-rule-matriarchal-society-china-photos And even their matrilineal system of visitation is already in demise, and is being replaced: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442211003730736
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@alyctus You don''t know how to spell either 😂
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@x_jun_x You are not quite right about how the Mosuo live, most of the women work in the field but they don't do it all alone, they receive help in the heavy work from the men in their families and men dominate the trade of animals which also brings another source of income. So, technically speaking, in many houses the women are the breadwinners but they receive financial aid from their "husbands" and help in the fields from the men in their families, (brothers, etc), so it's no true that they do ALL the work by themselves. Also, most of the women who work hard on the fields are older women who already have had children, so they don't necessarily accumulate both functions. There are some myths about how the the Mosuo live and how their society is organized. For instance, many people believe that all the families in the community have a Matrilineal system of inheritance but this is not true, almost 20% of the houses in the community are Patrilineal, and because of economic changes the "visitation system" of engagement is being replaced: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14442211003730736 Another myth is that the Mosuo are a "fatherless" society, but this is also not completely right, many biological fathers participate actively in the lives of their children. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720025007/http://web.pdx.edu/~tblu2/Na/myths.pdf https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/aman.12125
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@jadeemp Exactly, and the Mosuo are also not a matriarch, actually there is no serious antropological evidence that a matriarchal society ever existed. What exists is a handful of matrilineal and matrilocal societies scattered around the globe, but feminists like to think about them as "matriarchs" to fulffil their fantasies about women supremacy :)
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@unicornbunny6190 It's NOT matriarchal, a truly matriarchal society has probably never existed, there is no serious anthropological or archeological evidence of this. These societies that some feminists like to think as "matriarchies" are, in fact, Matrilineal or Matrilocal, where women have a substantial power in the family and more influence in the community. But even in these societies men still hold most of the power in the political, economic and religious matters.
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Black Knight Fool You're completely right, but there is even more, the Mosuo tribes are not always matrilineal, there is a minority of them which have the traditional patrilinear arrangement and they are becoming more common while the matrilineal ones are dying out, one of the causes for this is the economic changes that are happening in that region.
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@chilvari This is a matrilineal society not matriarchal, in Mosuo society men, for the most part, still dominates Religion, Politics and most of the economic matters, women only have a substancial power in the family arrangement. But even then it's not true that this happens in all families, in some families it's the wife's brother (a man) who gives the last word inside the house. This type of videos doesn't show this but there are articles interviewing Mosuo members that give more details about how they truly live.
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Body shaming much? You underestimate the difference that exists in physical power between men and women, also if that type of body is common among locals so the men of the tribe doens't need to be stronger, since their enemies also have a similar phenotype.
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