I’d be more willing to listen if y’all didnt insist on naming your ideological evil after men then wondering why so many are skeptical everything you say, it demonizes half the population.
Patriarchy? It’s not named after men, it’s named for “patriarch” - it means “rule of the father”. It is very present in many typical households, where a male father figure makes and enforces the rules of the household. This serves as something of a microcosm of society at large.
I think you are seeing this as some sort of “battle of the sexes”, like women vs. men kind of a situation - that’s not what it’s about, it just has been a historical fact, in most societies, going all the way back to the concept of dowry payments that a “father of the house” makes the decisions, up to and including decisions for women and girls, such as who they will marry, and so on, but in return this means that men have to perform a specific role and have a lot of pressures and expectations placed upon them, which can lead to very harmful effects on men too.
Feminism is fighting for men and women against a harmful ideology that primarily benefits the men of the ruling class.
The patriarchy hurts both sides
I’d be more willing to listen if y’all didnt insist on naming your ideological evil after men then wondering why so many are skeptical everything you say, it demonizes half the population.
Patriarchy? It’s not named after men, it’s named for “patriarch” - it means “rule of the father”. It is very present in many typical households, where a male father figure makes and enforces the rules of the household. This serves as something of a microcosm of society at large.
I think you are seeing this as some sort of “battle of the sexes”, like women vs. men kind of a situation - that’s not what it’s about, it just has been a historical fact, in most societies, going all the way back to the concept of dowry payments that a “father of the house” makes the decisions, up to and including decisions for women and girls, such as who they will marry, and so on, but in return this means that men have to perform a specific role and have a lot of pressures and expectations placed upon them, which can lead to very harmful effects on men too.
Feminism is fighting for men and women against a harmful ideology that primarily benefits the men of the ruling class.