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Saying something is the result of patriarchy doesn’t absolve anybody (including women) of the responsibility for fixing it.

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It’s not the result of patriarchy, is the result of them being bad people. They would still exist under a matriarchy or in an equal society.

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“patriarchy” in this context means something other than you think, I.e. it means a system that upholds gender roles that benefit a (majority male) ruler class, e.g. by encouraging worker class men to go to war for their benefit, worker class women to be caretakers, and so on.

The counterpart to this definition of “patriarchy” is a society with no stratified gender roles, not “matriarchy”.

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This is exactly why its such a bad word to use to describe this, it automatically puts people on the defensive and needs to be explained to people that it doesn’t mean what the word means (rule of the fathers).

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Probably far worse actually.

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