Pirms pāris mēnešiem (varbūt kāds atceras) Žižekam sanāca taisnoties par savu rakstu, kurā viņš minēja bites kā analoģiju dzimšu ideoloģijai, tādējādi, pēc atsevišķu cilvēku domām, attaisnojot šīs ideoloģijas pastāvēšanu un nepieciešamību. Viņš vēlāk paskaidroja:
"On the contrary, I evoke bees to indicate the horror of a society where gender ideology would predominate. Would such a society be Communist? Neither gender ideology nor I claim anything similar. When Wright sees irony in the fact that “honeybees serve as perfect illustrations of communism — a political system closely aligned with Žižek’s own ideology,” he is talking pure nonsense. The one who misses the irony is Wright himself: Far from conceding some ground to gender ideology, my comment on bees is part of my critique of this ideology."
Taču šodien izlasīju interesantāku rakstu - par biškopības vēsturi saistībā ar politiskajiem modeļiem:
"The True Amazons remained the standard work on beekeeping in Britain until 1744 when it was superseded by Melisselogia, or The Female Monarchy by John Thorley..
..Thorley noted that if the drones are given their due and are, in fact, all consorts of the queen (i.e., the “Kings” and “Princes” of the hive), then one faces an even more embarrassing dilemma: No monarchy could exist with scores of pretenders to the crown all proclaiming their royal authority, and desirous of the queen. Certainly, if just a single queen can produce an entire colony, she does not need hundreds of males with which to mate. This idea, in Thorley’s opinion, denigrates the queen, making her majesty “the most hateful and abominable whore, with Gallants by Hundreds”; if the drones are the male reproductives, he asked, then “What has become of her so much boasted, admired chastity, wherein she appears such an eminent Pattern to the human Species?” Thorley solved this dilemma in the only way he could. He claimed that the drones are of neither sex, and must have been created for some purpose other than reproduction. By similar reasoning he argued that since the queen can produce all of the hive’s inhabitants on her own, there is no need for additional females. So, like the drones, the worker bees must be neuter, too!
In the same year that Thorley’s book was published, an English translation of Gilles Bazin’s Historie naturelle des abeilles became available in Britain. In this very popular and widely read book, Bazin explained the bees’ sex and gender roles through a dialogue between two main characters, Clarissa and Eugenio. In the story, Eugenio explains to Clarissa that the hive consists of a single “Queen Mother” (the only female in the hive), up to one thousand drones who are the royal consorts to the queen, and fifteen thousand or more worker bees of no sex.
However, by claiming that all the males are potential consorts to the queen, Eugenio was faced with the same problem that Thorley was so anxious to avoid—namely, if the queen has gallants by the hundred, how can she maintain the virtue and dignity befitting a woman, especially a woman of her social rank?
Eugenio claimed to have solved this problem with a simple experiment: When a queen and a single drone were placed together in a glass bottle, he observed that the queen maintained an appropriate, feminine demeanor at all times. When she thought it best, the queen “chose” to caress the indolent, insensitive male into the act of love. Once aroused by the queen, he obeyed until he died, exhausted by his passion. Hence, by choosing only one husband at a time, the queen maintains her virtue.
Eugenio also discovered, much to his astonishment, that when a second drone was introduced into the same bottle, the queen did not behave like a “brute” but rather like a virtuous wife. Remaining fixed to the body of her deceased spouse; she did not take a new husband until the next day. Although, at first, this may not seem like a long enough period of mourning for a respectable woman, Eugenio defended her actions. She should not be chastised, he explained, because, given the short life of a bee, a single day is likely a proper period of mourning, as is a year for “one of our young widows.”
https://www.realityslaststand.com/p/can-females-rule-the-hive