Genealogy is just an exponential choose your own adventure where nearly every chosen path is the man. It’s retconning an entirely narrow slice of your history based on whom you want association. It’s Your Storyline Plinko.
Maybe they mean “the man” as a colloquialism for patriarchy?
Not necessarily “a man”. Not like “You’re the man now, dog”. More like how the world is run by the Man.
The Man, oh, you don’t know the Man. He’s everywhere. In the White House… down the hall… Ms. Mullins, she’s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he’s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock ‘n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome ’cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
Yes patriarchical. The bend is important people in history and moreso men in the context of genealogy research plinko. It also should get less and less interesting the further in the past you go as exponentially more and more people can claim the same heritage, ie all people of european descent are related to Charlemagne. 🥱
Genealogy is just an exponential choose your own adventure where nearly every chosen path is the man. It’s retconning an entirely narrow slice of your history based on whom you want association. It’s Your Storyline Plinko.
I live in a region where family lines are traditionally matrilineal
Maybe they mean “the man” as a colloquialism for patriarchy?
Not necessarily “a man”. Not like “You’re the man now, dog”. More like how the world is run by the Man.
The Man, oh, you don’t know the Man. He’s everywhere. In the White House… down the hall… Ms. Mullins, she’s the Man. And the Man ruined the ozone, he’s burning down the Amazon, and he kidnapped Shamu and put her in a chlorine tank! And there used to be a way to stick it to the Man. It was called rock ‘n roll, but guess what, oh no, the Man ruined that, too, with a little thing called MTV! So don’t waste your time trying to make anything cool or pure or awesome ’cause the Man is just gonna call you a fat washed up loser and crush your soul. So do yourselves a favor and just GIVE UP!
Yes patriarchical. The bend is important people in history and moreso men in the context of genealogy
researchplinko. It also should get less and less interesting the further in the past you go as exponentially more and more people can claim the same heritage, ie all people of european descent are related to Charlemagne. 🥱