When I read the words The Patriarchy it always transmutes to The Illuminati in my head. Both are mysterious, ineffable and ultimately illusory. You my dear are a Platonic cave dweller, at least in that regard. I am writing this because I suspect you're adult enough to deal with a little good humoured chiding and are open enough to actually considering alternatives to the agitprop you have been fed.
The modern conceit is that we are all the same fungible economic units with no biological distinction. I would recommend reading, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker -
to disabuse you of such ideas. Perhaps afterwards you might reconsider the concept of The Patriarchy in light of it's contents. Also you might consider who ultimately benefits from the notion that you have been fed, and who loses from it?
It seems like a redoubled envy, an envy of envy (neither of which envy, as you note, is likely justified)
i would be so much more if it wasn't for the burden of manly expectations, i'd be a superb wallflower and bumbling débutante, but they didn't let me 😔
I am attacked
When I read the words The Patriarchy it always transmutes to The Illuminati in my head. Both are mysterious, ineffable and ultimately illusory. You my dear are a Platonic cave dweller, at least in that regard. I am writing this because I suspect you're adult enough to deal with a little good humoured chiding and are open enough to actually considering alternatives to the agitprop you have been fed.
The modern conceit is that we are all the same fungible economic units with no biological distinction. I would recommend reading, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature by Steven Pinker -
http://www.amazon.com/Blank-Slate-Modern-Denial-Nature/dp/0142003344/
to disabuse you of such ideas. Perhaps afterwards you might reconsider the concept of The Patriarchy in light of it's contents. Also you might consider who ultimately benefits from the notion that you have been fed, and who loses from it?