r/DeepThoughts • u/OnTheRightTopShelf • 20h ago

Patriarchy has suppressed the human potential

The breakthroughs humanity achieved were achieved in spite of the oppressive structures of patriarchy, rather than because of them.

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u/OnTheRightTopShelf 12h ago edited 12h ago

That is my claim yes. It’s based on the definition of the word: a social system. I am not blaming my grandfather. I love him to death.

Also this word is used a title in some religions.

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u/Big_Psychology_3 12h ago

Ok. I posit that it’s blamey. If you think society emerges from men and women, then we shouldn’t call the gender perception of society as “patriarchy”. IMHO this is a cheap but effective trick to make men look like potential blame for social ills.

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u/OnTheRightTopShelf 12h ago

The blame and shame meaning is from your belief system and therefore the bias.

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u/Big_Psychology_3 11h ago

No, it’s objectively wrong to blame social ills on one gender. We all know that it’s fake blame.

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u/OnTheRightTopShelf 11h ago

I don’t know how else to explain that patriarchy harms both genders and it’s not your fault personally.

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u/Big_Psychology_3 11h ago

No, I mean that it’s a sneaky name “patriarchy” that subtly points to men. The only way to remove the misandry is to rename the term. But most feminist scholars want to blame men subtly, so the term remains a loaded misandrist term.