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[Major Nikon]

228. Here's where this theory falls apart

Certainly there are people in our society that seek to control women. They aren't hard to find. They are social conservatives. And although that group is mostly controlled by men, within that group is quite a few women who are either supportive or at the very least apathetic. There are also quite a few female voices cheering on that control and some are in positions of power which make it happen. Not only does that group not include me, it doesn't speak for me, nor does it benefit me and I'm far from alone on this. Although social conservatives enjoy broad influence in the GOP, they don't even make up a majority within their own party. They don't even make up a majority of men in the GOP, much less men as a whole. The problem you run into when you use the words, "patriarchy" and "men" interchangeably is inevitably someone points out the obvious error when you start applying that reasoning.