Colleges: the first bastion of the Gynarchy
The first bastion of the Gynarchy was in its colleges. With more Women enrolling, graduating and taking professorships each year, college campuses became more and more Feminine, shaking off the yoke of their patriarchal foundations. The push for Female Supremacy in colleges began with the realisation that male attendance at university was harmful for cis and trans Women. Sexual assaults, constant interruptions and mansplaining, harassment, Women made to feel uncomfortable and unsafe at night from loud packs of drunken men. These, the unthinkable conditions of the patriarchal dark ages, were what the Founding Women were up against. Earlier efforts to combat the problem of male behaviour at academic institutions had been largely unsuccessful. Attempts to improve college culture through protest and gradual reform changed little, the problems of patriarchy still poisoning campuses and preventing Women from feeling safe. Small pockets of Feminist students met, at first in secret, to de...