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The Making of Male Dominance

This one-hour special, co-hosted by John Biewen and Celeste Headlee, goes way beneath the #MeToo headlines to explore questions like: How, and when, did male dominance get started in the first place? (Spoiler: The cave men didn’t invent patriarchy, and it’s been around for only a fraction of human history.) How has patriarchy lasted so long? Some leading (male) Enlightenment thinkers argued that “all men are created equal” should become “all  people are created equal.” Why did they lose the argument? (Hint: They lost the skeleton war.)  The Making of Male Dominance was adapted from early episodes in the  Scene on Radio podcast series,  MEN.