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Matriarchy

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Matriarchy	label	Matriarchy
Matriarchy	page	Matriarchy
Matriarchy	comment	Some societies are thought to exist as matriarchies, where women hold power and rule over society, both in modern day and historically. However, in fiction, the first known fictional matriarchies to be described in any detail were called "gynÃ¦cocracy", and was hypothesized by Aristotle and Plutarch, but Amazons go back even further, to Homer. They usually vary widely from supposed real-life matriarchies, and can be considered separate. The treatment of matriarchies varies from author to author and by time period, but they tend to follow a few major patterns.
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Matriarchy / int_11292d9c	comment	The Azadi Empire in Dreamfall: The Longest Journey is ruled by a conclave of Six Empresses, with women taking all important political positions (except military, which is still the male domain). Even in-game, opinions differ: April sees them as nothing more than the straight-up evil imperialists, Kian believes the Azadi state to be best of all possible, while Brian Westhouse acknowledges their imperialistic tendencies but points at their truly remarkable cultural and scientific achievements.
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Matriarchy / int_114e569f	comment	Rihannsu: The Romulans in this telling have matriarchal cultural norms, with women outnumbering men in positions of power, but there's no noteworthy difference in treatment between men and women: the Hereditary Republic craps on all the lower classes equally regardless of sex.
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Matriarchy / int_11d89ebb	comment	In "No Need for a Core??", the Azeria Forest kitsune clan is ruled by a matriarch who is almost always a nine-tail before the position is passed to them. Given their long life spans, each has plenty of time to select and train an heir from their descendants. This is contrasted by the kingdom that they are a part of being a Patriarchy, but only for the King / royal family. The rest of the nobility has no gender bias for inheritance. There are no coincidences here. both the royal family and the clan have the same founding ancestry, and part of the kitsune clan's responsibilities is to provide an 'advisor' that acts as a spymaster for the king, and also as an assassin to take out the king if he should grow corrupt.
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Matriarchy / int_13863944	comment	Children of Mother Earth by Thea Beckman, in which men are forbidden from carrying weapons, but otherwise everyone is allowed to do everything. A utopic setting, with the plot mainly derived from the fact that a Nazi-like culture invades the country and has to be "fought" off by the pacifist inhabitants.
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Matriarchy / int_154faf86	comment	Homestuck: The troll society is matriarchal with the ruling class, Fuchsia Bloods, being an exclusively female group. Porrim is exceptionally critical of it as it only really empowers a select group of women, enforces a Fantastic Caste System, fascism, and gender roles (with Porrim's own blood class being pressed into caregiving). She further notes that it all feels especially hollow since the current empress is under the heel of Caliborn a destructive He-Man Woman Hater.
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Matriarchy / int_16cfb2e5	comment	Implied in The Witchlands when it's mentioned that the Marstoki Empire is a "female-dominated" society. As the story is yet to visit Marstok, it's unclear how far this extends, although it's made clear that the country is always ruled by a woman.
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Matriarchy / int_16fc4335	comment	In the Heralds of Valdemar series by Mercedes Lackey, in Karse, the "Son of the Sun", the leader of their theocracy, is a woman this time around, by direct divine intervention. This would normally just be a gender flip, but she is also reversing the excesses, pogroms, and corruption of the previously patriarchal theocracy. She single-handedly changed Karse from being one of the major antagonists and "evil" forces in the novels to one of the good guys.
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Matriarchy / int_1c25dba1	comment	Suikoden V's Queendom is technically a Matriarchy, in that the monarch is always a queen. However, her armies are commanded by her husband, whom she does not choose and is decided by the outcome of a grand tournament. Likewise, the Queen does have executive power but in practice the Senate (which seems to comprised entirely of men) own enough land and have enough soldiers loyal to them that the Queen must play politics in order to avoid them obstructing or dethroning her. The only other women in positions of power in the Queendom are a retired Admiral of the Royal Navy who now serves as mayor of a single town, and the leader of the Queendom's religion, who lives in a small settlement on a remote mountain (and in the case of the latter during the story, it's the Queen's cousin, Haswar, adding a hereditary element to the matriarchy). In the Golden Ending, this is on the way to being reformed: the new Queen is still a young teenager, so she's not married: the Commander of her armies is her older brother (the player character), and the Senate is much less poisonous and self-interested.
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Matriarchy / int_1c649ab3	comment	The Rising of the Shield Hero: The Kingdom of Melromarc is of matriarchal line, so the Queen has higher authority than her husband, and crimes against women are very frowned upon. A plot point is that at the beginning of the story, the Queen is absent because she's had to deal with a pretty big diplomatic mess caused by the King, and she resolves to set things right once she's back.
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Matriarchy / int_1ef6a11b	comment	The Nightrunner and TamÃr Triad series by Lynn Flewelling has Skala, a kingdom with a matrilineal line of queens. The legitimacy of this tradition is enforced by a prophecy: "So long as a daughter of ThelÃ¡timos' line defends and rules, Skala shall never be subjugated." This particular example fits in the "flipped patriarchy" category because they rule in the same manor a king stereotypically would, including being skilled warriors and commanders. However, certain Enlightened characteristics of their culture are implied to be due to their matrilineal succession, such as: equal rights and opportunities for both genders (and LGBTQ+ citizens), culturally sanctioned and legally protected prostitutes (of both genders), etc.
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Matriarchy / int_1f04caca	comment	Sword Princess Amaltea is a Patriarchy flip set in a Medieval European Fantasy.
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Matriarchy / int_223c2a48	comment	The Gerudo in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild are a One-Gender Race of Amazonian Beauty Desert Bandits who ban males from entering their city for the sake of tradition rather than animosity towards men, but are known to be rather aggressive in their romantic pursuits of them.
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Matriarchy / int_2250e67e	comment	In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Bound", we learn that those Orion "slave" girls apparently being the slaves is all a big ruse; actually, it's the Orion men who are the slaves, with the women running everything behind the scenes via their powerful pheromones.
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Matriarchy / int_2d165a50	comment	Ōoku: The Inner Chambers is set in a Gendercide Japan where women have taken over all ruling roles due to the Heir Club for Men becoming impossible to maintain, and dominate society in general due to a five-to-one gender ratio. Despite this, men are on average treated better than women (and certainly better than women were treated pre-Gendercide): Partially because no-one changed the society of pre-Gendercide Japan and just let women fill most of the roles held by men (female rulers take on male names and titles, and men still hold the monopoly on force as the concept of women samurai is considered unthinkable), and partially because of men's Gender Rarity Value (with the man-killing Redface Pox killing 80% of men who catch it, they don't want more men to go out and catch it and die). In the end, this means that when the Redface Pox is eliminated by vaccination, it takes less than three generations for patriarchy to reassert itself: Between stabilizing gender ratios and the Boshin War, the institutions are simply filled with men again. The victorious Meiji government then rewrites Japan's history, removing all traces of matriarchy and making all the female rulers men (and their male consorts women) posthumously as they consider the concept of women rulers shameful.
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Matriarchy / int_2e833eb	comment	Fallout: Equestria: As in canon, Equestria was ruled by two goddesses and most of the ponies in charge were mares. During the war, this only increased; while many companies led by stallions rose to power, ultimately the ones on top were the six Mares of the Ministries, appointed by Princess Luna to win the war however possible. Because of this, every Stable was ruled by an Overmare, the sole exception being Stable 24, which had an Overstallion. Since the Stables were social experiments to try to figure out where Equestria went wrong, it only made sense to see if stallions could do better. They didn't.
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Matriarchy / int_2ea6ae26	comment	Star Trek: Picard: There are at least two Romulan institutions which are female-dominated. The Qowat Milat is an all-female sect. On rare occasions, the warrior nuns may teach a man their ways (such as Elnor), but even after he completes the training, he can never be higher than The Apprentice in terms of his official position within the order. Although the Zhat Vash accepts men into its ranks (such as Narek), the cabal is run by women, and only women are allowed contact with the Admonition. When Oh speaks to the female initiates, she informs them that their foremothers were the first ones to visit the octonary star system, which indicates that the precursor of the Zhat Vash was also matriarchal.
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Matriarchy / int_2f3aa7ef	comment	Fanfics for My Little Pony, due to the canon's use of this trope, often end up depicting Equestria (or Dream Valley, for Generation 1 fics) as either a Matriarchy or an outright Lady Land.
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Matriarchy / int_33888a01	comment	The Legend of Drizzt: Drow society is usually a strict matriarchy, with every House headed by a Matron Mother who rules them. Males are taught to believe themselves inferior in relation with females, a gender hierarchy very harshly reinforced. Their cities are run by councils made up of Matron Mothers, with males having no voice in the government.
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Matriarchy / int_3de0ef04	comment	Hamster's Paradise: As the name suggests, the matriarch harmsters live in societies dominated by the most vicious females. The reason this particular species has female leaders is because they are significantly larger and more aggressive than the males as a result of living on the isolated continent of Mesoterra which is home to the maniacal ripperoo, a deadly predator that is also the primitive ancestor to the all harmsters, favoring bigger females able to fight them off and produce greater numbers of offspring. The lead female is also the only one allowed to breed in her tribe with any children of other females being killed, the only way for a new female to be able to reproduce is to kill the current leader. The exact treatment of the smaller, more numerous males varies from culture to culture: the militant Hamazons treat them with as utterly expendable, the fanatical Ripper Sisterhood have them conditioned to be mindlessly self-sacrificing and the pragmatic Badland Bandits still have female leaders but don't abuse their males due to seeing it as needlessly wasteful.
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Matriarchy / int_3f3abe9	comment	Gazorpazorp pretends to be this in "Rick and Morty".
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Matriarchy / int_431f7ab9	comment	The Kingkiller Chronicle: Ademre are a Proud Warrior Race ruled by women. All members practice their Fantastic Fighting Style, the Ketan, which makes even a mediocre Adem fighter the match for several normal soldiers. The Adem believe that morality is more important for skill in the Ketan than any physical advantage. They also believe that woman are more naturally moral than men. Therefore, woman are both better fighters and better people than men. All of their leaders are women for this reason.
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Matriarchy / int_43576f5	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural has an episode featuring a race of human-looking women who are Amazons and operate as an all-female society. They seduce human men as sperm donors, and then the rapidly growing girl children must kill their father in a coming of age ritual. This causes conflict for Dean, when his daughter Emma comes looking to kill him.
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Matriarchy / int_46aac2a3	comment	The Lands Between of Elden Ring are ruled by Queen Marika the Eternal, and the Elden Lord/Lady, are explicitly referred to as "King/Queen Consort" to denote that Marika is the one with true political power; of course, this is more about Marika being the literal god of the local religion, but it should be noted that out of the three Empyreans, potential successor of Marika, two are women and the third, Miquella, is stuck in a kid's body and is presented as very androgynous (and may have a feminine alias as Saint Trina). Caria, the nation of sorcerers, was also headed by Queen Rennala.
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Matriarchy / int_48b94b04	comment	In Blackveil by Kristen Britain, there is an in-universe example in the form of the play The Mad Queen Oddacious, who was a crazed despot eventually dethroned and killed by her people. Historians are unsure if she was an actual historical figure. The protagonist muses that the play was probably created to warn of the evils of women being allowed power, especially since it gained in popularity during the rule of Queen Isen.
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Matriarchy / int_49a88435	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_49a88435	comment	The Viera race of Final Fantasy XII and Final Fantasy XIV is governed by women exclusively. Men live seperately from the women along the outskirts of their territory, acting as sentinels and only being permitted into the cities for the purpose of siring children.
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Matriarchy / int_49a88442	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV has two different clans of miqo'te: Seekers of the Sun and Keepers of the Moon. Keepers have a matriarchal society where women are considered the leaders of their family, with adult men typically living comparitively solitary lives as wanderers who occasionally visit tribes to trade and sire children. This also applies to Keeper nomenclature, which adds a suffix to male names to denominate the order of their birth ('a for firstborn sons, 'to for secondborn, 'li for thirdborn, etc.) This is in stark contrast to Seeker tribes, which are strictly patriarchal and led by a single breeding male whose daughters all take his given name as their surname.
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Matriarchy / int_49ad83ee	comment	The Kaldorei in World of Warcraft though it also overlaps with the Sexy Matriarchy variant to some degree. And also, how "enlightened" they are depends on who you ask. The religion centers on the goddess Elune, and is controlled by an entirely female priesthood. The military is also primarily, though not entirely, female. The leader of the society is also traditionally female: whether a Queen like Azhara, or just a de facto dictator like Tyrande. This does lead to some Values Dissonance when dealing with the rest of the Alliance, since human society was until recently pretty misogynistic. However, it's not as if men have no positions of power in this society. Princes can rule regions, many famous generals are male, most mages and druids are male. And then there is Illidan and the demon hunters, but they are outcasts from society. There is also a questline in which Xavius creates visions of Malfurion to confuse Tyrande. He supplies the visions with voice lines, none of which are particularly convincing for anyone who knows the character. Some interpret these as Xavius projecting his feelings for Queen Azhara onto Malfurion: which definitely hints at a bit more of the Sexy Matriarchy variant at least having been more common in the past.
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Matriarchy / int_4ff8055d	comment	Labyrinths of Echo: In one book, the protagonist and his colleague found themselves in a hilariously over-the-top Patriarchy Flip. He wonders why his friend didn't catch what's going on despite being a much better detective... and then have to explain what's "Patriarchy" to begin with, because World of the Rod got nothing closely resembling either.
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Matriarchy / int_52e8fba	comment	The Oz books tend to have many female rulers. Ozma, Dorothy, Glinda, and the North Witch are very capable leaders, and the female rulers of the lesser kingdoms in Oz are usually more capable than the men. However, you do get cases like the East and West Witches, Langwidere, or Coo-Eh-Oh which are God Save Us from the Queen!. Author Appeal was at work as Baum was a suffragist (and married into a family of suffragists).
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Matriarchy / int_5666e22b	comment	In Robin Jarvis' Deptford Mice books, the squirrels are ruled by a wise, magic-wielding female known as the Starwife. Further back in their history, there were five royal houses of black squirrels in total, each one with its own queen regnant. Gradually these realms were destroyed in various tragedies, with the exception of the Starwife's realm in Greenwich Park, London which remains even in the 'present day' of the books.
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Matriarchy / int_578e4422	comment	The Overture: The Rondelin Empire is an extremely conservative society run by women. Childbirth is considered the most important function for all people and, as men cannot bear children, they are viewed as "incomplete". While men still labor, they are forbidden from holding or spending money so all funds either go to the man's wife or mother. Men are also required to keep their eyes hidden while in public and must wear special blindfolds while traveling.
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Matriarchy / int_585e3753	comment	Bit: Duke dreams of a world in which men are oppressed by women instead of the opposite, and suffer as they did (i.e. a Patriarchy Flip of the most vicious kind).
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Matriarchy / int_591e9935	comment	Bravelands: Hyenas have a matriarchal society. The female hyenas have all the authority and handle all the important tasks. The males are thought to be lazy and slow and only slightly more capable than cubs.
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Matriarchy / int_5a84b4ee	comment	Endless Legend has the Vaulters faction which are always led by a woman, this is due Vaulters historically having a lot of good luck with female leaders and don't want to jinx anything even though the faction isn't normally superstitious. Which is why all the troops are men while the Vaulter heroes are women.
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Matriarchy / int_5d354f8	comment	The gender-flip alternate universe in the Red Dwarf episode "Parallel Universe" is an amusingly exact patriarchy flip, complete with Wilma Shakespeare, Nellie Armstrong, magazines full of 'deformed' blokes who make Rimmer feel rather inadequate, and 'boring masculinists'. The female Rimmer and Lister have the exact same neuroses as the ones we're used to — the only deviation is the Cat's counterpart, who's still male but a Dog.
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Matriarchy / int_5e150650	comment	The Realm in Exalted is a subtle case of Patriarchy Flip. Governed by the Scarlet Empress, women are preferred in some quarters of the military and governance, but both male and female Dragon-Blooded are expected to fully contribute to the Realm (and its population) to the best of their ability.
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Matriarchy / int_5e26057	comment	In Luminous Arc 2, Carnava has been ruled by a line of Queens for so long the manual points out the title "kingdom" has actually become misleading. The current Queen, Sophia, is portrayed as a Reasonable Authority Figure even when she works against the player party and has them imprisoned - The Mole was feeding her bad information. When the cards are laid on the table, she apologizes and immediately starts supporting their cause again.
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Matriarchy / int_5ee2a942	comment	In Black Jewels, the Blood society runs on this. The highest rank in the Blood caste system is queen, with the highest male rank being warlord prince, which is slightly below a queen. Most of the rulers are queens, with a few warlord princes and princes ruling here and there. Women enjoy great sexual freedom and have the final say on a child's paternity, able to deny parental rights to their child's father even if the father acknowledges the child. Ideally, the system is supposed to ensure both genders' rights by a series of nuances and protocols between women and men. For example, since women are unable to use their magic during period or pregnancy, the men in their lives must protect them. In another example, men are allowed to choose which queens they serve and are usually drawn to a certain queen, and can leave her service if they wish and are free to kill a queen who has become corrupt or tyrannical. Under the manipulation of the High Priestesses Hekatah and Dorothea, the system in Terreille became a straw matriarchy in some places and a matriarchy in name only in others, though the ideal system remained in place in Kaeleer and was later restored in Terreille following the evil priestesses' defeat.
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Matriarchy / int_5f1404d6	comment	The Koda are depicted this way in GenÂ¹Â³. They are scantily clad, lick blood from the bare skin of their Kerubim leader, and are insatiable in the bedroom with "poor" Grunge.
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Matriarchy / int_60156176	comment	Vorkosigan Saga: Cetaganda is a matriarchal empire, although it has a patriarchal warrior caste with a matriarchal eugenics caste is above them. This is further complicated by the fact that there is an Emperor who wields power outside of the haut women, and has some oversight of the eugenics program as well. Barrayar runs on Heir Club for Men, but there's ample evidence that the women hold the true power, while letting the men play their games. More than once, a cabal of women will influence Emperor Gregor's rule, highlighted in Captain Vorpatril's Alliance.
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Matriarchy / int_66a50d4	comment	Nilenira in The Movolreilen Saga. Men are pretty much considered to be human forklifts and plows, except when used for breeding.
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Matriarchy / int_696b75c2	comment	Queensland, the country in A Brother's Price. Men are only about three to five percent of the adult population, and are regarded as more delicate and fragile than women, mostly relegated to House Husband duties. Women are far more collective than they would be in a simple patriarchy flip. Sisters, born to a set of sisters married to one man, look to the firstborn among them, their Eldest, as an authority.
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Matriarchy / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Most of the Drow live in a matriarchal theocracy ruled by a scantily clad priestess caste with a heavy Dominatrix vibe: Chaotic Evil, sadistic, Dressed Like a Dominatrix, and wielding whips. Poisonous snake-whips that are animated and imbued with low-grade sentience of bound imps, at that. Interesting enough, the most famous mortal drow in the history of the game is male: Drizzt Do'Urden of the Forgotten Realms setting, an outcast of the race and a hero of the Realms who appears (if not stars) in many of the novels.
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Matriarchy / int_6c5a9849	comment	Shadow of the Conqueror: In countries that abide by the Matriology religion—like Frey—women and men both abide by a strict Mars and Venus Gender Contrast where Women Are Delicate and A Real Man Is a Killer, but women are the heads of every household and a singular queen is the ultimate ruler.
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Matriarchy / int_7365dfda	comment	In Out-of-Placers, the Yinglet species is a fairly complex example for biological reasons. Females are both rare and less afflicted by the species-wide Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny! problem that keeps most male Yinglets from ever rising above the roles of spear-fodder and/or general scavenger. They also have a lot of control over their own reproductive processes: As they mate with multiple males, they can select specific traits from each partner that they want to reinforce and attempt to breed them into the next generation of eggs. The Matriarch of an enclave is in charge of selecting which males get to mate with which female as well as the primary keeper of knowledge, giving her a huge amount of power over the council of Patriarchs (the males with the most skill and experience in their specific fields) who oversee the day-to-day operations of the enclave as well as the overall direction of Yinglet society. Interestingly, this system was set up by a male Yinglet, a legendary hero figure who designed enclave society to minimize unrest (before the enclave system, male yinglets spent a lot of their time fighting each other over the few available females) and maximize the efficiency of their directed breeding ability.
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Matriarchy / int_767bd4d8	comment	In Cerebus the Aardvark, the Cirinists create a fascist matriarchal state once they seize the government from Cerebus.
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Matriarchy / int_76e7de99	comment	Rashemen in the Forgotten Realms setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Rashemen society is gender-separated with certain roles only suitable for certain genders, and ultimate authority rests in a priestly caste of female spellcasters called the Wychlaran or "Gray Witches". While fighting is a man's job and as such Rashemi warriors, warlords and the nominal head of the country (the "iron lord") are all men, all of them consider the Witches' word to be law. Male spellcasters do exist, but their role is to use magic for Mundane Utility or to produce magic items.
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Matriarchy / int_7702c21f	comment	The Wilds: Gretchen wants to create what she calls a "gynocracy", where women lead instead of men, as she thinks patriarchy is ruining human civilization. She placed the girls on the island to prove they were more capable, with a male control group that would show the opposite.
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Matriarchy / int_77677ed1	comment	Sword of the Stars: Tarka society is mostly run by noble-class women. While the public leadership positions are exclusive to Changed males due to their dominating presence and charisma (Tarka males become sexually mature, or "Changed", only through a voluntary process that requires the help of Tarka females, and less than one in twenty males receive the Change), the fact that two Changed males cannot physically stay in the same room without a physical altercation (and that non-Changed males immediately submit to them) means women are required to keep the machinery going. Needless to say they make full use of this to make sure the Changed receive the information and prodding needed to make the 'right' decisions, and general Tarka prejudices make certain positions and careers difficult to hold for males (including non-Changed ones) because they're seen as unintelligent and too emotional to do well in them.
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Matriarchy / int_77f41d89	comment	Saga of the Exiles series featured this, right down to female soldiers.
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Matriarchy / int_7832b74c	comment	The Crystal Gems of Steven Universe are this by default, since they don't actually have a gender due to being sentient rocks, but their projected bodies are always female presenting and use female pronouns. They aren't better off or worse than humanity due to explicitly being female. Despite their advanced technology, their race is highly class based and act as viruses by draining a planet's resources to create more gems, prompting Rose Quartz to lead a rebellion against her leaders.
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Matriarchy / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect: The salarian males take up most societal roles including soldiers and scientists while females only make up 10% of the population, however they almost always end up being the political leaders of their society something the males rarely achieve. This is because they are more or less cloistered on their home planet due to being so rare and necessary for their race to survive. Mass Effect: Andromeda implies the salarian social structure was disrupted with the Andromeda colonization project, since many stir-crazy salarian females left Sur'Kesh to go to Andromeda.
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Matriarchy / int_81bd6d63	comment	Atlantis in Atlantis: The Lost Tales is ruled by a Queen, the main god in their religion is a woman and women are shown to be more respected. Until the evil consort takes over, when women are made into second-class citizens.
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Matriarchy / int_83c60227	comment	Dragonkin territory in An Outcast in Another World is ruled with an iron claw by the Dragon Queen. The world of Elatra is a borderline example of this, as while each race and nation is ruled by one of their own, none of them can truly go against the Dragon Queen if she puts her foot down due to how monstrously strong she is.
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Matriarchy / int_86558c1c	comment	The Mouse Guard is always governed by a Matriarch, with Gwendolyn currently in the role. Why this role is specifically female when no gender roles seem to exist anywhere else in the Territories is anyone's guess.
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Matriarchy / int_86814cd0	comment	Troia of Final Fantasy IV is a theocracy/mageocracy of sorts ruled by 8 female Epopts. Their military is entirely female.
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Matriarchy / int_86814cd2	comment	Alexandria in Final Fantasy IX is a fairly bog standard monarchy. The leadership of the kingdom is passed down to female heirs instead of male ones, and the regular army, like that of Troia above, is entirely made up of women. The male Knights of Pluto, led by Steiner, also get a lot of grief from the female soldiers.
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Matriarchy / int_8810c3a2	comment	Spectral Shadows has this in Serial 11, where females are pretty much the dominant gender in the Patriarchy Flip fashion. How severe the flip is varies from town to town.
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Matriarchy / int_89465e75	comment	Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Hunters of Artemis are composed of women or girls who gave up love in exchange for immortality and youthfulness. As a result, they dislike and consider men as beneath them, often trying to recruit uninitiated women into their ranks. This gets deconstructed later on, however, when a lesbian couple is revealed to be two ex-Hunters who fell in love with each other. Since Artemis forbade all kinds of romantic attachment, including same-sex, they ended up having to leave and become mortals.
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Matriarchy / int_897271d7	comment	The alien Jan in Alien in a Small Town have a Hive Caste System, and so are naturally ruled by their breeding females. They're Silicon-Based Life, and Jan Matriarchs age into effectively living, sentient mountains.
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Matriarchy / int_8aa7c509	comment	Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Mewni, the home world of the title character. All of the rulers mentioned have been queens and Star's royal family history seems to be made up entirely of women. The only kings mentioned are Star's father and the husband of her ancestor, Eclipsa, but in both cases, they appear to be kings by marriage, with their wives having inherited the throne. Star's father also took her mother's surname upon their marriage and the all-female lineage carries the same surname, implying it is standard practice. Although it is shown that princesses/queens in Mewni are at least expected to act like "proper ladies" and generally follow many medieval etiquette norms, the queen appears to be the one with more authority (such as sitting on the Magical High Commission and leading the Royal Council) and indeed, when Eclipsa was dethroned and Moon went missing their respective daughters were immediately considered the new ruler, rather than their husbands. In the backstory, Queen Skywynne had a son, Jushtin. She was happy with him being Mewni's first male ruler, and he proved to be a great diplomat. But between his low magical ability and the weight of tradition, the people disliked him, and Skywynne eventually had a daughter Solaria to take the throne instead. Jushtin stepped aside without complaint. In hindsight, Jushtin was a much better choice than Solaria. She almost ruined all the alliances Jushtin had created through Fantastic Racism, created a Super-Soldier caste to massacre any non-Mewmans, and one of those soldiers becomes the final Big Bad of the series.
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Matriarchy / int_8bbc4fe0	comment	In the world of Roll To Dodge: Savral, the regions of Avis-Sfal and Spyrus consist of a number of independent human villages led by magic-using priestesses. Within these villages, men are never the focus of players' interaction, in contrast to many other regions where the players interact with mostly male NPCs. It's implied that these societies are matrifocal, since the Tgan High Priestess' brother occupies a position beside her and no husband figure exists. While the roles of men in these societies aren't clearly defined, both the Tgan High Priestess and the priestess Zbse encounters doubt men can rule effectively.
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Matriarchy / int_8d36db52	comment	Two examples in Tyranny: In the Tiers, only women are allowed to hold land, but likewise, only men are allowed to captain ships, with occasional exceptions on both sides for truly extraordinary individuals. Indeed, the Bronze Brotherhood has both men and women, but the women are also called "Brother" and live under the legal fiction of being men as a way to formally disavow any land-owning rights. The Beasts. It varies from tribe to tribe, but in general, among Beasts, Might Makes Right. And the women are not just formally the only ones allowed to rule, but simply significantly larger and more powerful than the men. Indeed, Kills-in-Shadow expresses surprise and mild curiosity at a male Fatebinder acting the part of Alpha.
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Matriarchy / int_8dd8ec81	comment	The Silver Millennium and later Crystal Tokyo in Sailor Moon were both ruled by women, Queen Serenity and her daughter Neo-Queen Serenity respectively. What's more, the heir apparent to Crystal Tokyo is also female, and it's notable that most of the royals seen in the series are female, the exceptions being Endymion (heir to the Earth Kingdom and later joint rulers with Neo-Queen Serenity) and Prince Demande (ruler of Nemesis).
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Matriarchy / int_8e193f0b	comment	An early episode of Boy Meets World has a career day where Topanga comes as the President of the United States. She says that men are now used for breeding and they have eliminated a need for the military.
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Matriarchy / int_8e68cca9	comment	Digger: The hyena tribe is mostly a Patriarchy Flip, though with a few original elements as well. Males can hold important posts, but it is shown to be far from the norm: there is only one male, Owl-Caller, on the Elder council, and he is extremely deferential to Boneclaw, whereas the female elders argue with her as near-equals. Justified, since this is how Real Life spotted hyenas operate, with the highest ranked adult male below all females and juveniles in female's care.
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Matriarchy / int_8f794c68	comment	In the Wings of Fire series, all dragon tribes are ruled by queens who, with a few exceptions, achieve their role through Klingon Promotion. While many of the queens are some flavor of crazy, this generally seems to be due to the nature of the world, and good queens, such as Glory after her coronation, do exist. Male dragons are also not discriminated against in most aspects of society, though queens' sons are often ignored, in an inverse of a Heir Club for Men situation.
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Matriarchy / int_90c73dda	comment	The Helmacrons in Animorphs, possibly meant to be an Aversion of Insect Gender-Bender. Their species' defining traits are being very small and also completely freaking insane, which extends to how this trope plays out. All the leaders are female, but they're also ritualistically killed before taking office, since dead people never make mistakes and thus are better leaders. Males are Never Given a Name (Marco dubs the one that they meet "Wuss") and treated as slaves, but once given a pep talk about standing up for themselves they prove just as bombastic and crazy as the females. Also, slaves captured from other species are automatically classified as male regardless of their actual sex, and will be killed if they disobey an order. Incidentally, being executed makes them eligible for leadership roles, which possibly means that they're now considered female.
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Matriarchy / int_90f18253	comment	The Magistracy of Canopus in Battletech is a major Periphery state founded by Kossandra Centrella, a former army officer who was left behind by her (male) command staff at the end of a particularly destructive war and decided to found her own nation away from Inner Sphere patriarchy and militarism. As a result of having been founded by ideological feminists, the Canopians' higher institutions and the position of Magestrix are held entirely by women (with members of House Centrella having won every election for Magestrix), though this is more due to tradition than outright law. The Canopians run a society based on maximising individual liberty, making it a major tourist destination for people interested in prostitution, gambling, drugs and cutting-edge medical treatments, while their almost complete lack of interest in warfare or military expansionism makes them a minor player in the setting at best.
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Matriarchy / int_90f42a9b	comment	In The Wheel of Time: Many smaller independent villages are an Original Matriarchy, they are governed by two separate (theoretically equal) groups. The Village Council is all male and the Women's Circle exclusively female, but members of both bodies will privately admit that really, the women are the ones calling the shots. The Aiel exhibit a similar governance (and similar admissions of who holds the true power) though in their case they are led by a Clan Chief (male), a Wise One (female), and the woman who owns the Hold. The city-state of Tar Valon is a Magocracy ruled by the Aes Sedai Magical Society, which have been exclusively female for the 3000 years since the Dark One tainted the male half of the source of Functional Magic. Other citizens, however, enjoy equal rights under the law.
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Matriarchy / int_919c4f7d	comment	Radiant Historia has Granorg, ruled by the corrupt and vain Queen Protea. What saves this example from being a straw matriarchy is the rule of her successor, Eruca, who is shown to be compassionate and wise.
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Matriarchy / int_920d318c	comment	In Anima: Beyond Fantasy Daphne, the Kingdom of Roses, works this way with women ruling and being warriors, etc. while men behave in the way the former act elsewhere being soft, etc. and basically staying in the kitchen, caring and raising children, etc.
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Matriarchy / int_945f2d42	comment	In Wapsi Square, Lanthas was this, according to Jin's mom, who is quite sure that since this is a patriarchial society, fathers and sons have no difficulty talking about the women the son has slept with.
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Matriarchy / int_957d64e7	comment	First Kill: Legacy vampire society is run by the female heads of their families, with the keepers of the Emerald Malkia (a kind of magical snake) as the preeminent family, led by their eldest woman. There is a ruling Legacy Council made up of the matriarchs which governs them all.
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Matriarchy / int_98d2e5b5	comment	The Droods from the Secret Histories series have tried other types of leadership over the centuries, but keep defaulting to an autocratic Matriarch when such social experiments go wrong. Other positions of authority within the family's ranks are gender-neutral, and that of Serjeant-At-Arms seems geared for hefty, intimidating men.
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Matriarchy / int_99102298	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_99102298	comment	The society in the The Two Ronnies serial The Worm Who Turned starts out as a Patriarchy Flip (complete with men wearing dresses), becomes a particularly egregious Straw Matriarchy (apparently, expecting men to cook is against the natural order of things) and naturally, this being The Two Ronnies, includes a dash of Sexy Matriarchy (the Secret Police consists entirely of attractive women in tight uniforms with bare legs, for no clearly explained reason).
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Matriarchy / int_996edf24	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_996edf24	comment	Themyscira, the island where Wonder Woman originates, is a matriarchy by default: men are not allowed there. There have been many different interpretations of the Amazons and their culture over the years, but this is the most common and the original. Themyscira is a haven for women who were once enslaved by men and now live free of their influence as nigh-immortal superbeings who pursue knowledge and martial arts for personal fulfillment rather than any grand goal.
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Matriarchy / int_99709ae6	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_99709ae6	comment	Motherland: Fort Salem: The alternate US seems to be dominated by women, as they occupy both the top government and military positions. However, it doesn't exactly reverse social hierarchy in the US either, and there's no sign of explicit misandry. It seems to be a result of the fact that most witches we've seen are female, and so by association women in general obtained more power, thus falling into the Original Matriarchy category. It's also notable that black and Latina women are visibly equal with white ones. Nor does anyone care if a person is LGBT. The matrifocal commune Tally is from would be one by default as well, since no men live there. Except for this, it's not depicted as really too different from the modern US regarding fashion, government, technology etc. In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, an in-universe rendition of America the Beautiful also replaces "brotherhood" with "sisterhood". The Cession is run by a mostly female council, with representatives from different native tribes (Salish, Shoshone, Lakota, Ojibwe, Muscogee, Iroquois and Cherokee).
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Matriarchy / int_99c7e45b	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_99c7e45b	comment	YilanÃ¨ in West of Eden have a matriarchy, which may or may not be due to their sexual dimorphism.
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Matriarchy / int_9a17c5fc	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9a17c5fc	comment	Lupin III: Part II has Search the House of the Mystery Women episode, which features an example of Sexy Matriarchy with the women of the titular house: a remote giant mansion in the middle of nowhere populated by beautiful, blissful girls wearing at most see-through gowns, bikini bottoms and other skimpy clothing. Furthermore, their leader reveals that they secretly despise men and due to their treasure (a drug which leaves any woman who drinks it into a blissful stupor) they actually have no use for men to keep themselves happy. Unsurprisingly, the Homoerotic Subtext is abundant.
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Matriarchy / int_9acfcc46	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9acfcc46	comment	Kekkaishi: The Tsumimura and Yukimura can be either matriarchal or patriarchal depending on who inherits the Kekkaishi power. In Yoshimori's case in particular, his mother is the matriarch, while his father is the House Husband. However, Yoshimori's mother inherits her power from her father, Yoshimori's maternal grandfather, therefore her family as regards her own parents is a patriarchal family. The opposite case is for the Yukimura: Tokine's late father was a patriarch, but his mother (Tokine's paternal grandmother) is a matriarch. The family names Tsumimura and Yukimura are inherited accordingly, therefore Yoshimori inherits his family name from his mother, not his father.
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Matriarchy / int_9bedccbc	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9bedccbc	comment	The gay republic of Proud Pink Sky sees this in the lesbian districts: Delos, Flora, and Diesel are all run along matriarchal lines.
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Matriarchy / int_9c33b8ab	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9c33b8ab	comment	An episode of Sliders, "Love Gods", sees most of the men in the world having been killed via germ warfare. Women generally take over society, while the surviving men (at least those with a healthy sperm count) are kept in compounds. The men are to impregnate the best possible women in order to rebuild the population, especially before another country does so (the men that succeed the most are afforded many luxuries). Naturally, when our heroes get there, the male characters are instantly mobbed and taken into custody.
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Matriarchy / int_9cba83fd	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9cba83fd	comment	Crusader Kings III has an option for Historically Accurate male-dominated succession, gender equal succession (both males and females can inherit) and female-dominated succession. While the previous game has a penalty for switching to female-dominated succession mid-game, and fairly stringent requirements to do so in the base game, in this game, switching the inheritance rules at the beginning of the game has no drawbacks (except for the fact that almost every kingdom will start off with a slight malus for being ruled by a male, which will rectify itself over the course of a couple of generations of rulers).
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Matriarchy / int_9d34190a	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: This as the case for the Khajiit race. While the (historically male) Mane is the unofficial "head of state" of the Khajiit people, it is the Clan Mothers who hold the real power in Khajiiti society. They control the harvest and refinement of Moon Sugar, which is sacred to the Khajiit, and thus it is they who are seen as the most influential. This is a trait of the Aureals (aka Golden Saints) and Mazken (aka Dark Seducers), two forms of lesser Daedra in service to Sheogorath. Their society is extremely matriarchal, with females filling all leadership positions. It helps that the female Aureals/Mazken are both physically larger and more powerful than the males.
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Matriarchy / int_9d963831	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9d963831	comment	The Castle in Septimus Heap has always been ruled by Queens, but the world shows no signs of being anything but a gender-equal setting.
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Matriarchy / int_9fb9bec4	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_9fb9bec4	comment	Outsider: Due to Loroi men being much smaller than the women and only making up about a tenth of the population, Loroi society is highly matriarchal. Almost all vocations, including commerce and especially the military, are seen as the province of women; men, in contrast, live in seclusion within specialized cloisters — the prevailing belief is that, as the rarer and weaker sex, they need to be protected and kept secure — and mostly serve to father new generations; outside of this, there are few vocations open to them outside of certain philosopher orders.
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Matriarchy / int_a1c9e8d4	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_a1c9e8d4	comment	Green Antarctica: The Ghault. Since their women were forbidden from drinking alcohol while pregnant, they tended to outnumber the menfolk, who had a bad habit of dying young from violence. As a result, they tended to assume high positions of authority. The result was an inflexible, conservative culture ruled by Witch Queens, several of whom would rival Hali's Kings in Yellow in their viciousness and cruelty.
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Matriarchy / int_a55608da	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_a55608da	comment	In The Marvellous Land of Snergs, a shelter for abused kids is run by an all-female association managed by Miss Watkins. All members are presented as good-natured, compassionate women who are definitely competent at their jobs.
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Matriarchy / int_a895e9d3	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_a895e9d3	comment	One of the worlds you can visit in the Portal 2 DLC "Perpetual Testing Initiative" is indicated to be one. The Cave of that world mentions a ruling council of matriarchs and a gender regulatory committee, with Cave and Greg under some Paper Thin Disguises to try and fool them.
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Matriarchy / int_a9d20f69	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_a9d20f69	comment	Antaris of Chanters of Tremaris is a magocracy and, due to the high notes in their sung magic, all of the ruling magicians are female.
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Matriarchy / int_aa5b7cc2	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_aa5b7cc2	comment	The Mistress' Domain in Oglaf.
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Matriarchy / int_ac129b14	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_ac129b14	comment	The Courtship of Princess Leia: The Hapes Consortium has something of a Patriarchy Flip, with women ruling and men as subordinate, though they don't seem to be mistreated otherwise. Dathomir meanwhile is much more worse. From what's seen, many men are slaves of the women, with the right to rape them if they wish.
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Matriarchy / int_ad97c383	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_ad97c383	comment	The Continent in Queen's Blade is ruled by a Queen chosen via a series of tournament battles. Being an extreme ecchi series, the female fighters rarely wear more than a Chainmail Bikini, and even the all-female angels are often depicted as being rather scantily clad and buxom.
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Matriarchy / int_b0660893	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b0660893	comment	In Yoake Mae Yori Ruri Iro Na, the Kingdom of Sphere is a fairly standard monarchy, except with the line of succession going down female rather than male lines. The benevolent aspects have less to do with female rule and more to do with the fact that the previous Queen and her heir-apparent are benevolent people in their own right.
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Matriarchy / int_b129ef63	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b129ef63	comment	The Conqueror from a Dying Kingdom: The Shanti Kingdoms are ruled by matrilineal Queens. They marry and can take on a Prince Consort who have great influence and power. There is also an old tradition from the days of the Shanti Empire where the Empress would never marry, but instead take on numerous lovers to hide the identity of each royal child's father. The goal was to prevent the men or family's of the men from making use of the children to take power.
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Matriarchy / int_b2e615b2	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b2e615b2	comment	The eponymous Jaran in Kate Elliot's Novels of the Jaran have a complex matriarchal structure. Women are the power both in the family and politically, and it is deeply ingrained in their culture that men respect and obey women. There are two exceptions to this: marriage and war are under male domain. This society is not depicted as particularly better or worse than a patriarchal society.
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Matriarchy / int_b37304ba	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b37304ba	comment	The Heroes of Olympus: The mythical Amazons are depicted as a female-led society in which men exist within their ranks, but are relegated to non-leadership roles such as menial labor. Unlike the Hunters of Artemis, who are strictly female misandrists, the Amazons like men just fine, though they prefer that they Stay in the Kitchen. Despite this, it's shown that the Amazonian society isn't a female utopia; because of their warrior-oriented culture, potential leaders have to undergo Klingon Promotion.
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Matriarchy / int_b39f5bf3	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b39f5bf3	comment	After the End: A Post-Apocalyptic America has both the Gaian and the Ursuline faiths. The Gaians, who blame the men who ruled the old world for the end of it, place Enlightened Matriarchy as an ideal, although the results are much closer to a standard patriarchy flip (the main difference is that Gaians have to be a bit more gender equal than most others, and that's mostly down to hardcoded game mechanics — except for succession it mostly isn't actually possible to invert gender preferences and restrictions). The Ursulines, a Catholic off-shoot, are a near-straight flip with their clergy, with only-female Cardinals and an Abbess-General playing the papal role, though unlike the Gaians this is not really down to an actual preference for female rule (it just happened to be a female monastic order that Canadian Catholics looked to for organization in preference to the Pope in St. Louis after the End), so Ursuline feudal lords are just a bit more tolerant of female rulers, with nothing keeping them from male-preference succession.
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Matriarchy / int_b481533	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b481533	comment	Hainish: In "The Matter of Seggri", the titular planet is this variation. There are about sixteen adult women for every adult man, and the women treat men (who are made to live apart from larger society) variously as intellectually lacking sex objects or "treasures" to be coddled and patronized. Men are seen as more emotional than women and unable to use logic and rational thinking, whereas women are seen as pragmatic and rational.
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Matriarchy / int_b797e684	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b797e684	comment	Barbie (2023) portrays Barbieland as one of these, as the Barbies hold all positions of authority while the Kens are relegated to second-class citizens. While the Kens aren't outright mistreated, they're viewed with Condescending Compassion by the Barbies as it's clear they're not respected. When the main Barbie and Ken experience the real world, Ken is astonished that people actually see him and treat him as an individual. As a result of this and Barbie's continued rejection of him, Ken becomes inspired to try to remake Barbieland to how it "should" be and instigates a rebellion that leads to a role reversal. The film ends with Barbie Talking the Monster to Death and apologizing to Ken for her mistreatment of him, with Barbieland striving to become more equal.
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Matriarchy / int_b88b182f	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b88b182f	comment	The Dark Eye has an interesting example in that the flip happened over time in the setting's history. The earliest inhabitants of Arania were a semi-nomadic pastoral culture with strict separation of gender roles: men were responsible for herds and warfare while women handled...well, the boring stuff. Over time, however, they transitioned into a settled culture of merchants and farmers. Suddenly all the economic power lay with the women instead of the men, who grew increasingly marginalized because those strict gender roles prevented them from doing anything other than their more and more irrelevant traditional herding and raiding. This softened up a little over time, but women still hold most of the economic and political power in Arania and men are mainly expected to work on looking good and marrying well.
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Matriarchy / int_b9821fa9	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_b9821fa9	comment	The Dark Crystal Age of Resistance reveals each Gelfling Clan had an Always Female ruler, the Maudra, and the All-Maudra ruled them all.
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Matriarchy / int_ba44f5d5	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_ba44f5d5	comment	In The Plains of Passage, Ayla and Jondalar come across a matriarchal society, which had been taken over by the women fairly recently. It wasn't going well at all because the women didn't have all the skills the men had (although this was a consequence of the chief being crazy and not thinking things through rather than of women being inherently unfit to rule). The chief, Attaroa, was insane, murderous, and sexist, to the point that all the males were slaves kept in a giant pen in the middle of the camp, half-starved, denied medical care, and often worked to death. The population was dwindling because Attaroa didn't let the women have sex with the men, assuming they'd give birth only to girls as a result, and even threatened to execute women who gave birth to boys.
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Matriarchy / int_bc531e07	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_bc531e07	comment	Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: The protagonist Leon is reborn as a poor rural Blue Blood noble in a setting where men unmarried by 20 are considered past expiration and thus used as Cannon Fodder or just worked like a slave. The noble women as a whole are mostly characterized as Spoiled Brat Rich Bitch who only see men for their earning potential, using their servants to bully. Married noblemen are exploited by their wives who live opulently with their Beast Man Exclusive Servants in the capitol (with said servants being their de facto gigolos), and possibly other lovers, while the men usually take on The Mistress and live separately. The system came about due to a centralist Government Conspiracy to keep the lower noble's money near the capitol where it could be taxed, and to rein in their constant warlordism. Commoners are noted to be more normal. The system ends up being reformed partially due to its disastrous effects on soldiers' morale.
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Matriarchy / int_be651019	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_be651019	comment	In the world of Gifts of Wandering Ice, women are in charge. Men can be become clan leaders too, but only if they prove clearly that they understand the value of human life as well as a woman who raised a child does. There were very few male chiefs.
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Matriarchy / int_bfd7c6e0	comment	Drowtales: Drow society is this, with a small bit of Original — women dominate because they tend to be innately superior at using magic and (at least among the majority Dark Elves and Drowolath) tend to be physically stronger and larger than the males. This is in contrast to the Light Elves and Drowussu which is not a coincidence where the physical aspect is inverted and Light Elf society is traditionally patriarchal, while Drowussu still officially have female leaders but behind the scenes are more balanced in terms of their leaders' gender ratio.
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Matriarchy / int_c4282b71	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_c4282b71	comment	Equestria, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, is a land ruled by Princess Celestia, an Alicorn who causes the cycle of day and night. Ponyville itself is run by a mare, who was democratically elected as the village mayor. Equestria is generally peaceful and harmonious... but it is My Little Pony. Equestria, from what we've seen, appears to be a pretty gender-equal society, with both mares and stallions in a wide variety of roles.
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Matriarchy / int_d57d722e	comment	Ōkami has the Draconians, who are ruled by an Empress after the death of their Emperor.
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Matriarchy / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends features the many tribes of the Freljord, all known of which are led by women: Ashe of the Avarosan, Sejuani of the Winter's Claw, and Lissandra of the Frostguard. While men are still valued as fighters and authorities (Ashe is married to Tryndamere, who is considered king), women are always respected as the de facto rulers — it's implied that this connotation is based on the Freljordians' reverence of The Three Sisters who originally united the land in ancient times.
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Matriarchy / int_dc497ea8	type	Matriarchy
Matriarchy / int_dc497ea8	comment	The Weave: The Court of the Fairy Queens has several queens installed as the heads of the noble families, none of whom seems to even have male advisors, and in one case, it's explicitly made clear that a prince, in opposite to a princess, is not allowed to inherit or represent anything and can be married off by force.
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Matriarchy / int_e42289f8	comment	Bazil Broketail: The Cunfshon Isles are clearly dominated by women (specifically witches), though the degree varies. Some regions like Defwode are quite known as misandrist. Women from other regions though don't show this misandry, respecting men (such as Lessis of Valmes).
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Matriarchy / int_e5fd2cef	comment	Lensman The matriarchal society of Lyrane II is this, with the women being athletic, ideal physical specimens and killer telepaths who refer to themselves only as "persons", while the men of their species are referred to as "males" - these are stunted, dwarfish creatures who are retained only for the purpose of breeding for a limited time, then they are executed and their bodies disposed of. The Lyranians reacted harshly to what in early 21st century terms is called "toxic masculinity", but - as one of them confesses to Kim Kinnison, trying to breed the combativeness out of them led to racial deterioration. Males of off-planet races are loathed, and only barely tolerated even when they are responsible for saving the Lyranians from extermination. This has been going on for so long that the concept of a 'female' is foreign to them. Co-operation with them is so difficult that Kim Kinnison takes the controversial step of making his fiancee a Lensman, little knowing that the omnipotent Arisians' approval of this scheme (and their provision of a Lens for her) is motivated in part by her being his opposite-sex penultimate in a breeding program as old as humanity itself. This is taken to its logical conclusion in Children of the Lens when the Boskonians approach the Lyranians looking for a proxy race of front-men (or any beings, really) to replace the Kalonians. The latter, a two-gendered near-human race whose women have no function beyond the birthing of men, are close to the Boskonian ideal (the top echelon are sexless eldritch monsters that reproduce by binary division) but can't quite meet it. The Lyranian persons, on the other hand, just need a bit of technological help to make that final jump...
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Matriarchy / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends has the Hapans, a race of narcissistic Human Alien Designer Babies who adopted a matriarchal society after most of their men were killed off by the Jedi for becoming Space Pirates four thousand years ago. Men were treated as second class citizens and breeding stock while rarely being given positions of power, and as a result many followed their ancestors and turned to piracy in an attempt to escape the confines of their culture.
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Matriarchy / int_e68decb8	comment	The Syreen in Star Control and Star Control II, a race of Blue-Skinned Space Babes in which the women control the military, the government, and the economy. This is what they look like — the obvious Sexy Matriarchy trope is heavily lampshaded and Played for Laughs. The difference between the Syreen matriarchal civilization and historically patriarchal humanity is explained as arising in pre-history, when (according to the game) the more violent, patriarchal tribes of humans on Earth conquered their peaceful neighbours, leading to a history of patriarchy; on the Syreen homeworld, the peaceful tribes were better protected, and advanced far enough technologically to resist conquest, and become dominant. In more recent history, the Syreen homeworld was destroyed, resulting in the vast majority of males being wiped out, while a relatively larger number of females survived, since women formed most of the Syreen's space patrol forces. Thus, Syreen males are rare.
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Matriarchy / int_e694aadb	comment	In Ciaphas Cain the planet Nusquam Fundamentibus is a relatively mild version of this. The various military and political leaders are all female and several comments imply that women are the primary breadwinners for most families with men being expected to Stay in the Kitchen. There is one male officer in the local guard regiment but he was given a commission for bravery and comments that he's the first male officer in the regiment.
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Matriarchy / int_e71c3f24	comment	In Royce Day's The Red Vixen Adventures noble inheritance in Foxen society is matrilineal, though there's nothing stopping males from obtaining titles. And one of the short excerpts on the author's LiveJournal indicates that in the military Noble caste vixens can start as officers while males have to work their way up.
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Matriarchy / int_e8054edf	comment	The Eden-like colony of Chroma seen in episode 5 of Raumpatrouille is portrayed as this. The women, led by SHE, are in charge, men are shown working as scientists and gardeners. The planet was settled by former rebels on the losing side of the First Galactic War who turned to the ways of peace because the women took charge.
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Matriarchy / int_eb025310	comment	Pandora: Hypatia is a brutal example, with women ruling and men being their slaves.
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Matriarchy / int_f163bd9f	comment	ElfQuest: The future stories show planet Abode as being run by a human matriarchy, which seems to be a cross between this type and Enlightened — Abode seems to be a pretty decent place to live, but it's implied that the matriarchy is by no means free from corruption.
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Matriarchy / int_f186f924	comment	The Nora tribe in Horizon Zero Dawn are an example in which rank is dictated by the number of children and grandchildren one has, based on the Nora reverence of motherhood. They are ruled by a council of High Matriarchs, who are all great-grandmothers that speak for generations. Lesser matriarchs are grandmothers. There are leadership roles not restricted to women, such as the War-Chief and Seeker that have more of an active role, but these roles are still currently held by women anyway.
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Matriarchy / int_f5672aaa	comment	This describes the matriarchial society of human colonists in Ghosts of Mars pretty well. While women hold the majority of power, it's mostly a leather-clad Fetish-Fuel Future with dominant lesbian leader figures, and women sleeping their way to the top by getting it on with their superiors is seen as expected. The men are still macho, though.
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Matriarchy / int_fb8a471	comment	America 3000 has a rather extreme example of this, with the women treating men like animals to be enslaved and exterminated. With all the intrigues and hypocrisy besetting their political system, it would seem almost like a Straw Matriarchy except most of the men really are animalistic savages, and the newly civilized men are not shown to be much better at running things in their own upstart civilization. The rest of the movie is about how the civilized men and women manage to bury the hatchet and reintegrate with each other.
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Matriarchy / int_fccc35cc	comment	Baseline Crusader Kings II added this with the Holy Fury expansion and its 'Enatic Clans' option for reforming pagan faiths. Enatic Clans operate as a gender-flipped version of the 'Agnatic Clans' option, which is based on the same system as Islam: It locks you into a one-gender only succession law, commander and councillor appointment in return for giving you access to the powerful 'Open'/Turkic succession law.
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Matriarchy / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: In the episode "Angel One", there is a society where men have fewer social rights than women. The men are also the fairer sex, smaller, weaker, hairless, wear soft cloths, and use perfume.
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