Here's what I wrote about the patriarchy in my book, After # MeToo:
It would seem that, at least from the ordinary man’s perspective, the perspective of those men (almost all men) who do not have (and never have had) all the power, sexual or political, that the patriarchy isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Men must be the only supposed oppressors in history that are less well-served by the education system they have permitted to be created than the allegedly oppressed other, are greater victims of physical violence (including the socially sanctioned violence of military conscription and military service which was, and still largely is, exclusively applied to disposable men) than the allegedly oppressed other, are treated with greater severity by the justice system in respect of divorce and custody and in criminal sentencing than the allegedly oppressed other, do, as they have done throughout history, a staggeringly greater proportion of society’s dirty jobs than the allegedly oppressed other, are treated less well by their health systems than the allegedly oppressed other and live statistically significantly shorter lives than the allegedly oppressed other.
If patriarchy is all-powerful and all pervasive, as some feminists claim, it would seem to be correspondingly all-stupid and omni-ineffective in its manifest inability to construct and maintain a social order that transparently benefits all and only men, which, given that the patriarchy is supposed to be...‘the universal political structure which privileges men at the expense of women,’ makes no sense.