(Tried to post this in another pansy ass sub which is supposedly for men and it was removed because apparently anything mentioning feminism is out of bounds)

What’s with this?

There are a lot of men’s issues which are caused by things other than “Patriarchy”.

Men receiving less focus, funding and encouragement via focused advertising in higher education (for instance all the ads for Universities in my area feature female students in the foreground and female voice overs) for the past 3 decades, and this continuing and worsening once they’ve become a minority in higher education, isn’t the fault of “the patriarchy”. That’s why when society was truly male dominated in terms of education and industry, it never happened, and why it has only happened in the past half century.

Women’s groups pushing child custody laws throughout history (first the tender years doctrine of mother being best, then the idea the child should stay with the primary caregiver more pre divorce as being best) which favour always seem to favour women getting more custody is not the result of the patriarchy.

Anyone else find this a lame cop out to insist that everything bad must be caused by patriarchy and women’s groups or feminism can’t possibly influence society in negative ways for men?

In my opinion, if anything, feminism weaponises so called patriarchal thinking in their favour when they use this argument, as what they’re doing is putting a greater responsibility for moral outcomes on men as a group and emphasising their weakness and lack of ability to effect social change. But given it’s seemingly done to deflect blame for everything to men, while simultaneously continuing to push advance the problems men face in specific areas (ie education) it can’t really be called patriarchy.

It’s not one for one with human since the gender differences in this species make it necessary, but in Elephant society only females stay in the herd and raise the young - they are filling a stereotypical female mammalian role of the sort feminists would call patriarchal in humans - yet we call Elephant society a matriarchy. Why is anything stereotypically associated with feminine roles in humans said to be a result of Patriarchy, when we have no idea if women were actually thrust into that role or took it, and now continue to take it (pushing for greater advocation for themselves to receive child custody over men) in a more modern way?