Patriarchy does exist in the western world in our good year 2021 lmfao. One clear example is troons, but as I used the patriarchy as a reason for troonism arguing that would be rather circular so I won't use that as an example. Here's a few simple, obvious examples:
- How women that society views as bad are treated compared to men who have done the same thing. A woman being assertive is viewed more negativity than men. There is no male counterpart to Karen that is widely used.
- Women are afraid to walk and be out at night. Why? Because the possibility of men hurting them. Why are men hurting them and not women?
- Acid attacks still happen in Western world, primarily to women. The "if I can't have you, no one can" mentality behind this is from men who wish to destroy their beauty. I will say in the UK most victims are male, but most of this attacks are from gang violence, not personal attacks like the standard motive.
- Men openly harass women who they do not like or do not agree with them. This is obvious with TERFs and how men with the TERF opinions do not get their addresses posted online or their jobs taken from them as much as women
- How lesbians are expected to accept TiMs but gays are not for TiFs.
I can reasonably assume that you're male, and the thing is you think it's an enemy who doesn't really exist because you are not it's target. Just like how troons will never be a woman and cannot experience what women go through, so will you. You will never experience misogyny in your life, so if you only use your personal experiences as evidence for the patriarchy you will conclude that it doesn't exist. And dismissing the existence of the patriarchy because you don't experience it first hand when most women do and will say they do is arguably an example of the patriarchy itself.
