Women have more power than men -- socially, politically, economically, etc

I think a lot of people already assume that women have more power when it comes to dating or social influence. Men are the ones who tend to go out of their way to conform to what women want (even outside of the context of dating) and women are the ones who tend to bark orders and boss around their partners in relationships (which is where expressions such as "being whipped" and "ball and chain" come from -- men might technically hold the cards when it comes to "commitment", which is an argument that I've seen around here -- but men very often hand that power over to women).

I don't think it stops there though. I think that all this does is lay down the foundation for a pattern of that continues throughout all levels of society. Women, not men, are the ones who pretty much control everything, even including our political processes.

The first piece of evidence that should give this away is the fact that men are actually a minority, which is important in a democracy. There are more women, more female voters, and indeed the female vote is usually considered more important than the male vote. This is often brushed aside because women are still considered to be a protected class, as if they were a minority, even though that distinction should belong to men (and why would they give that up? The fact that we treat women this way is one of the reasons they have so much power in society).

While the difference in population might be small, women have slowly managed to pass laws, elect officials into government, and frame the political narrative into one where we have given women more and more privilege, often at the expense of men.

This shows up in:

• Marriage and divorce laws
• Child custody and child support laws
• A biased court system that discriminates against men
• Extensive police brutality and profiling against men
• Drafts that only effect men
• Government programs that disproportionately benefit women
• A tax structure that disproportionately benefits women
• Medical research decisions that focus on women instead of men (breast cancer vs prostate cancer being one well known example)
• Non-profit prerogatives that support "women's issues", even when men face those exact same issues at higher rates (examples include homelessness, suicide prevention, and domestic violence initiatives)
• Our media, in the form of sexist TV shows, sexist movies, and sexist TV commercials
• As well as our current political narrative where women, despite all of this, continue to pretend to be victims

A list of examples in this category could go on and on.

Now some people might point out that, while the United States is technically a democracy, and women might technically cast more votes, our political process is driven by money, and men must have more money, right?

Well, despite there being a wage gap -- that issue itself being highly misleading (and if anything, is just another example of the "matriarchy" at work) -- women actually have more money and assets than men do, at a rate of 3:2 and that number is slowly getting bigger ("60%" -- According to: Federal Reserve, MassMutual Financial Group, BusinessWeek, Gallup). There are more female billionaires than there are male billionaire, and women also control more spending in relationships, at a rate of 4:1. So not only do women hold more political power, on paper making men a minority, women also control more money and economic resources than men do, effectively giving them even more political control than one might otherwise assume.

I think what's telling here, is the question, why do women have more money and assets, when a majority of the wealth that is created, is created by male labor?

The answer: we live in a matriarchal society where men are very often treated like wage slaves, where men work the most dangerous, high stress jobs, that produce the most wealth, but only so that they can give that wealth to women. This happens through courtship (buying dinners, gifts, paying rent / mortgages, etc), through taxation, and through sexist divorce and child custody laws.

In the end, men do not keep the fruits of their labor, despite the existence of a wage gap (and possibly because of it). Men hand over that wealth to women, who in turn live easier, longer, healthier, less stressful lives, as a result. There is a continuous wealth transfer scheme in this country that was created by decades of matriarchal policy pushes, that takes money out of the hands of men (effectively violating their bodily and financial autonomy in the process), and puts that money into the hands of women.

The society we live in simply cares more about women than it does about men. We do not respect male financial and bodily autonomy. We do not care about discrimination, sexism, and exploitation, so long as it happens to men. And in fact, we often ignore it, because of a counter narrative in society that wants to pretend that the opposite is true.

That is the matriarchy in action -- more political power, more economic power, easier, longer lives, in addition to (and possibly because of) a dating scene that benefits women and gives them disproportionate amounts of power in society.