How oestrogen effected the world ?

Nature and its law is bigger than every single person on the world. The main and only reason of our existence is passing our genes to the next generation and help “mankind” to survive. Women serves mankind through their oestrogen hormone and the ability to give birth.

Lets go on for a journey of how in history oestrogen effected the world. Around 100.000 years ago world was believed to be in a matriarchal period. The first human beings on the world, our great great grandparents were wandering freely around the world. Even in that time, they had similar needs. They need to eat, hunt and communicate. Most importantly, their instincts already started commanding them to reproduce to prevent extinction.

The main aim of the whole world was to increase the number of individuals in the population. And the first effects of oestrogen is coming up here. World needs more and more people. It is such a blossom period with endless resources, this period was all about providing. And women provides. For a time when nothing is known about human body, child birth is the most magical event. Because of oestrogen and maternity, women were considered as supernatural creatures. The iconography from that time proves the goddess culture among people. The big bellies and big breasts underlines the maternity of women. Since the statues are mainly faceless, archeologists interpret that they do not symbolise a specific person rather it is a symbol for all women.

What comes after is again shaped by the needs of people. Population reached to a satisfactory amount. When there is no risk of extinction, the needs of the world shifted. Now people do not primarily need more and more people, rather its about controlling and organising. Now it is time to organise how people live, organise the sources and protect what you own. Men discovered that they also have a role in reproduction. And that lowered the holiness of women. Organising sources includes not only food or tools but also controlling reproduction. This led to the control of oestrogen, control of women by men. For that purpose, first wars in history showed up. The providing period ends and protecting period starts. Now what matters is power, and the meaning of power is as primitive as physical force.

Throughout all this thousands of years period, world was driven by power and men physically hold it. So women and the fruitfulness of women was kept under men’s shadow. Basically she was not seen as a complete human being. She was considered as a phase between child and men and all the purpose of her existence was depending on her reproduction hormones. When she is done with her duty as a baby provider and lust satisfier, her life and existence was meaningless.

Some quotes about women from the biggest philosophers of all times shows patriarchy openly and let us understand the seriousness of the situation more clear.

Aristo: “[T]he male, unless constituted in some respect contrary to nature, is by nature more expert at leading than the female, and the elder and complete than the younger and incomplete.”

Aristo hereby claims that women are incomplete human beings and they are not capable of leading. To support such an argument in philosophy and to set standards on what women is capable of, the discipline needs proof and viable facts. Which means there has to be several instances of failed women emperors or leaders compared to men.
However women was not given a chance. Throughout all history, there is only a handful of women emperors compared to the thousands men emperors. There has been no woman leader in Ottoman, Roman, Byzantine Empires etc. China? Only one women emperor in 4 millennials (Wu Zetian 690- 705) and she was considered as a pretty successful leader.

Another more recent quote proves that nothing has changed on these 2.000 years between Aristo and Schopenhauer.

Schopenhauer: Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex: for it is with this drive that all its beauty is bound up. More fittingly than the fair sex, women could be called the unaesthetic sex. Neither for music, nor poetry, nor the plastic arts do they possess any real feeling or receptivity: if they affect to do so, it is merely mimicry in service of their effort to please. This comes from the fact that they are incapable of taking a purely objective interest in anything whatsoever.

Schopenhauer claims more or less the same argument with Aristo. Plus, the lack of aesthetics and artistry in women is added to it by him.

This is a very self-explanatory quote that shows how women is seen in the public eye.
Just like Aristo, Schopenhauer also is in the lack of proof that shows unsuccessful women artists. The point they are missing out is that, the nonexistence of women artists does not necessarily mean that women is not capable of doing it. It is also a strong clue that women was not eve given a chance to develop and express themselves using art. Even if women had the chance, how seriously Schopenhauer would take a poet or an artist that he think is not a complete human being remains mystery.

Throughout all history, gender equality has been a mainstream topic only for the past 150 years, thanks to human rights movement, The definition of power shifted from physical force to money and authority. And both of them were earned by our brains, by thinking. It was finally a fair area for women to keep up with men and the change fiercely began. In the 20th century, women got the right to vote, started to work and actively exist in everyday life. Women finally crack the though shell of the “half-human” tag sticked on her. We are now at the edge of a huge change and just like every change it is painful. But all we need to do as women and men who has respect to human rights,is to never forget that we have just started.