Yes, Patriarchy Is Dead; the Feminists Prove It

[Major Nikon]

5. Because people need to understand what it really is

Jeff has alluded to this before and I agree. The reason the patriarchy was created in the first place was a social construct to protect women at the expense of men. Women are more important than men for propagation because men can't have babies. The patriarchy was evolutionary and was established in every civilization on earth to protect the most important asset they had. By design it devalues men. I agree with feminists wholeheartedly that patriarchal ideas need to go away and we need to reach a point of parity. However one reason I see that women are able to sell their anti-patriarchal message better than men is that many still see them as the weaker sex that needs protection which is a gift given to us by....you guessed it. So the result is those aspects of the patriarchy which are a detriment to women get addressed, while the flip side gets ignored and if any man dares to complain about that we are greeted with "poor men" gibberish. The origins of the 2nd wave very much understood that with shared benefits comes shared responsibilities if we ever want to reach gender parity. Betty Freidan and others wrote extensively about it. That was the whole basis of ERA. Her voice was ultimately drowned out by those who sold the idea of the patriarchy as a conspiracy against women which believe it or not is counterproductive to ever achieving gender parity because it allows the opposition to sell resistance to change as an answer to a conspiracy against men.

I don't blame either gender for it. Both promote its ideas for different reasons. If you want to talk blame, organized religion and regressives promotes it more than anyone.