Patriarchy isn't really a metaphor but ok - patriarchy is much more the description of a zeitgeist than a conspiracy. And it's more the general tone of commodification that I have a problem with and the reductionist attitude to social interaction and more broadly, women.
You know there are few people better placed to give advice on women than those who write 750 word rants about them on a subreddit centred around a belaboured matrix metaphor