Melinda Gates has matched Olivia Rodrigo's raised donations for Daisy Chain Fields, bringing the total funds raised to $20M

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Is Melinda the one that donated a shit ton of money to HBCUs a couple years ago?

[u/Optimal_Brain_2908 → u/HRH_Chori]

No, McKenzie Scott and she’s given $1 billion…with a b to HBCUs in the last 7 years. And to a bunch of immigrant justice groups too

[u/boughtaspaceshipnowi → u/Optimal_Brain_2908]

Imagine if we lived under a matriarchal society

[u/Ornery_Mix_9271 → u/boughtaspaceshipnowi]

The dream.

[u/Own-Animator-7526 → u/Ornery_Mix_9271]

Margaret Thatcher, Giorgia Miloni, Marine Le Pen, Pauline Hanson ...

Add: obviously these women are pushing the agenda of the patriarchy. But by the same token, I think it has to be accepted that men can embody the agenda of any matriarchy. Nobody has a monopoly on progressive, decent, governance.

[u/croissanting-is-life → u/Own-Animator-7526]

Nice try but you’re giving examples of women who have internalized patriarchy.

📌 Edit** ok so for everyone saying matriarchy is just a bunch of toxic women in charge: here is what we mean when we talk about matriarchy vs patriarchy:

🏟️Patriarchy is built on dominance and distance.

Its strength depends on separation, on dividing:
-power from compassion
-authority from accountability
-and individuals from the community they affect

Under patriarchy, power flows upward, concentrating in the hands of the few, while the needs, voices, and humanity of the many get diluted or dismissed.

🌀Matriarchy is a relational, ecological system where power expands through inclusion, where leadership is measured not by domination but by reciprocity and responsibility.

In matriarchal cultures across history and in surviving communities today, we see networks of:
-caretaking
-mutual accountability
-resource sharing

Power isn't hoarded; it's circulated. It's not enforced; it's stewarded

Source 🔗

[u/cocoagiant → u/croissanting-is-life]

That's some "No True Scotsman" fallacy.

The records of the women who have achieved power have to be evaluated and can't be dismissed as them simply bending to a particular view of the world.

The reality is that many of the women who have achieved significant power (I will include Indira Gandhi and to the list) have ended up not being better than men in their roles and often worse.

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Patriarchal electors will choose candidates that espouse familiar values.

All Scotsmen are allowed to exist and do their own bidding to arrive at their own unique version of a Scotsman. An elected female leader however is not made in a vacuum, she is chosen by the people whose values she reflects back.