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by Paul Ng Space: the final frontier. These are the hopes and dreams of humankind. Our lifelong mission: to...

Forget what you know about the birds and the bees, because some of these animals procreate by throwing the gender book out the window.

You may be familiar with legendary matriarchies like the (now extinct) Amazons, but there’s still a handful of female-led societies still surviving in the real world today that are matrilineal (where ancestral descent is traced through maternal instead of paternal lines) – and interestingly, most of them are in Asia.

It’s not uncommon to hear that once women identify themselves as “feminists,” they’d almost always be labelled a “man hater” or even “feminazi.” Perhaps this stems from the problem that many of us still haven’t grasped the true meaning of being a “feminist”.