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Matriarchal societies have been just as brutal as ones dominated by men.
Interestingly, the classical Greeks portrayed one of the forces of barbarism, as the (mythical?) tribe of Amazons - fierce female warriors.
Here's one of their mythical queens

who is portrayed in the Aeneid as fighting against the Greek hero Achilles.
Furious Penthesilea leads a battleline of Amazons
with crescent shields, and she
glows in the middle of thousands fastening
golden belts around the exposed breast,
female warrior, and the maiden dares to run
with men.
Achilles slays her,

Wikipedia: Achilles killing Penthesilea. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix, 470–460 BC. From Vulci.
but is defeated in turn, by the dead but still beautiful Penthesilea as he falls in love with her and regrets killing her. Thus reminding us of the problematic relationship that often exists between women and men.