Having implicit power structures form without any formal method of recall is precisely what allows unjust hierarchies to come into being.
When there are no explicit hierarchies then implicit ones necessarily arise because some individuals are more charismatic and extroverted than others, and people tend to rally around them.
@yogthos One of my favorite pieces on this topic is "Hands, Tools, Weapons" (https://redsails.org/hands-tools-weapons/#introduction), on the origins of sexual division of labor
"hunting became the prerogative of men [..] for reasons of greater mobility, individual and collective, in comparison to women” subject to the biological constraints of pregnancy and childcare.
Inequality is self-reinforcing, even when originating out of good intentions. An equal society means constantly combating inequality. It's an active process.
There is in ethnology an aspect of the sexual division of labor which up to the present time has neither been studied globally nor considered in an appropriate fashion: that of the tools which men and women use. The question is to know if there exists a sexual differentiation in…
Oscar West
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