What if the social movements we are seeing around the world are less a result of mere decades of strictly regimented social hierarchies based on gender and race and more a result of the long term social consequences of our technology and social understandings finally catching up to the impressively-slowed pace incurred by the religious coup the Catholic church engaged upon the ancient pagan religions of the time?
Much of that shift was centered on taking the focus away from specifically female-centric gods (like Freya and Aphrodite) and to model their religion around one all-powerful man-being. Even architecture stylings of the eras support this; our monuments to the skies were once pyramids and grand stone structures only to be replaced with lone phallic towers. Don't forget the biggest influence in creating and enforcing these disparities has always been the Bible.
Ultimately all of this ends up being an argument for true democracy in our modern time as it is so clearly visible the pattern of the acquiescence and corruption of power and the draconic needs to retain it that we can not keep entrusting the good of the many by empowering a few. Leadership was never meant to stand above their constituents, they were meant to walk with them while being the most responsible and accountable.
