Why women support patriarchy 

Fear and conditioning

This was explained so beautifully and succinctly. This made it so much easier to digest the articles I've been reading. Thank you❤

Unfortunately, too often true! Break the Patriarchy! ✊🏽

Men and women are equal

Very beautifully explained 👏

Lady, you might have bought into that story that women cannot shine on their own or that women have to be in competition with each other. But I rejected that role my whole life I took their script and I put it through a shredder and then I mixed it with compost, and I threw it in a hole dumped worms on it and backfilled. How dare you tell anybody in 2024 ACE that their light doesn’t shine! take you and your antiquated philosophy and get off my feed

I have to disagree with your supposition that women’s “roles” are seen as devalued. I would ask, what makes a role a woman’s, or for that matter a man’s. This is where patriarchy is so ingrained, that the belief that a woman’s role in society is automatically the caregiver/child raiser, and the man is provider/protector…. Etc. who said? Because of technological advancement, are we still slaves to subconscious definitions of roles in society? Aren’t we in a time where either (all) genders are capable of fulfilling any role? Even biology is up for grabs. With IVF, and the other medical advances, even our ideas of childbirth and what is possible no longer fits.

We have all been born into cultural systems and beliefs which we unconsciously accept as right and true, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Included in those systems are history, religion, law, gender roles, and societal value. We can understand how patriarchy could have become the default culturally because in our earliest systems naked survival in itself was of prime concern. In such a system it was brute force that was critical, not only against the predations of nature, but, in an unenlightened, unascended stage of human development, against each other. So, it may be that since brute force was so critical in our beginnings and remained so for so long, it became ingrained in our concepts around "value" in the culture.

Women are not brood mares

Great presentation! Patriarchy is all about sex, and women participate in it as ardently as men do. Men compete with each other because women crave to be adored by the victor. The powerful men put themselves in charge to gain access to women. Women follow the system and compete with each other to gain access to the most powerful men. Women are angry at men, not seeing their own power. Men are angry at women, not able to nurture and love themselves, not finding purpose beyond the conquest of women. It’s a crazy game where only 10% of the men win. Women are trying desperately to dismantle this system, but it’s exacerbating the issues men face, making those 10% of men even bigger winners and the rest of men bigger losers. Men are walking away from the system, but not to success but rather to complete hopelessness. I hope men and women, working together, can co-create something that creates more winners and more hope for the future.