Patriarchy is not an Androcentric system (Feminism is Gynocentric).
Patriarchy is balanced. Men's responsibilities are tempered with authority to enact them. Ideally, men are responsible for their women and children.
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Patriarchy is balanced. Men's responsibilities are tempered with authority to enact them. Ideally, men are responsible for their women and children.
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Patriarchy gives men commensurate authority over them to effect that responsibility.
In a Gynocentric world, anything less than complete submission to women is oppression. The deliberate misconception is that Patriarchy IS Androcentrism.
In a Gynocentric world, anything less than complete submission to women is oppression. The deliberate misconception is that Patriarchy IS Androcentrism.
In the Handmaiden's Tale, the world of Gilead is a fear-fantasy of Androcentrism. It's a totalitarian society ruled by a fundamentalist regime that treats women as property.
This world-building is Androcentric, but it is not Patriarchal.
This world-building is Androcentric, but it is not Patriarchal.
It is 100% authority with 0% responsibility. This is the definition of tyranny. When men are doing the tyrannizing, it's Androcentrism, not Patriarchy. When women are doing the tyrannizing, it's Gynocentrism.
In its effort to consolidate female power, Feminism's primary goal has been to conflate beneficent-but-authoritative Patriarchy with tyrannical Androcentrism. Thus, we get narratives of an unfalsifiable 'toxic masculinity' whenever men presume to exercise authority.
Feminism fears the authority inherent in Patriarchy. Gynocentric tyranny needs men to accept masculine responsibility to maintain power, but it defangs men of the authority that Patriarchy pairs with responsibility.
Today, there is a similar conflation between the Red Pill and Feminism. Women and their male 'allies' would have you believe that the Red Pill is just men's version of Feminism. It's an easy dismissal, but it's based on the same feminine fear that men might be emboldened enough
to presume to exercise masculine authority — even in the most beneficial way to meet the demands of masculine responsibility that a Gynocentric social order expects them to live up to.
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