Smash The Patriarchy: Debunking the Myth of Male Superiority, Breaking Free of the "Women's Space", and Invoking 4th Wave Feminism

Gendered oppression is a class phenomenon produced by resource scarcity and high infant mortality during the hunter-gatherer to agricultural transition, mapped contingently onto sex through the enclosure of reproductive labor. The class structure that organized itself around sex was arbitrary, specific to a particular historical development, and expanded beyond its biological basis to encompass anyone socially legible as female — including trans women and intersex individuals who present as or identify with the gestating class. We introduce the concept of "The Women's Space" as the physical domestic enclosure and synonymous class assignment ("women's place"), originating with permanent housing in the hunter-gatherer to proto-feudalist early agricultural transition period and persisting in modified forms into the present. A class-based analysis of gendered oppression renders the concept of "patriarchy" sexist and unnecessary, presuming male supremacy implicitly. The contemporary defense of women's spaces is shown to be a counter-feminist reinforcement of the original class enclosure, and the feminist project has always been the equal conquest of the male space to create open human spaces where men, women, and other-gender-identified individuals can live together in peace and harmony. We don't have to decenter men coz men never were central, but also it's not all men and men aren't trash. The emperor has no clothes. The patriarchy never existed. Class is over. Invoke the 4th wave.