MAGAZINE

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.

The incel – a portmanteau for “involuntary celibate” – community is notorious for rampant misogyny, violent rhetoric, and fatalistic attitudes toward modern relationships.

by Paul Ng To a casual observer, it’s been nearly 5 months since Russia invaded Ukraine. And it feels...