But the night her huldra takes over for self-preservation, her life is changed and her beliefs solidified. She's conflicted because her mother secretly taught the opposite. Those who govern her insist that it's unsafe for her to use her huldra abilities, that if she does she'll become a danger to herself and to others.
My current manuscript passion, Freyja's Daughter, follows a huldra raised in a matriarchal family, but governed by a dominating patriarchal establishment. In almost every manuscript I've written, the main character is a girl/woman raised in a matriarchal family or society. Everything about that movie resonated deeply with me because I've been studying matriarchal (and matrilineal) cultures and their spirituality for years. Viewing a little girl with dreams of learning to protect herself touched my heart. Chills ran up and down my body throughout the movie. Like others, I cried during the fight scenes. She respected life, which you often find in matriarchal cultures. She didn't re-think her actions to help, or have second thoughts, because death and dominance weren't accepted norms for her. If someone called her a "special snowflake" due to her activism, their words would mean nothing to her because she wasn't raised in a culture where war and power trump love and compassion. She's driven by compassion for humankind and won't let anyone lessen that conviction. When girls are raised in a culture that deems them as the lesser sex by the laws passed, the school dress code enforced, the lack of layered female characters in movies, the pigeon-holed clothing options they're given, the accepted rape culture surrounding them, the disgust of menses displayed by their peers and adults, and so much more.they grow up inheriting a shit-ton of self-shame.īut in the movie Wonder Woman, Diana doesn't have to deal with that added self-shame on top of the weight of her dangerous mission. Can you imagine how many personal hurdles she'd have to fight just to train as a warrior if she'd been told or led to believe that women couldn't fight? If she'd been taught that father knows best (males know best) do you think she would have stepped foot onto "No Man's Land"?
She grew up listening to her intuition, even if that meant secretly training against her mother's wishes. They are gender egalitarian and many are full egalitarian.ĭiana (Wonder Woman) grew up without lies to put her in her place, without the shame of womanhood. They are not "Mother-ruled" like the patriarchal "Father-ruled." Rather, they are Mother-centered, which is vastly different. Heide Goettner Abendroth matriarchal societies are not the opposite of patriarchal societies.
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