Patriarchy
Glossary term
/ˈpeɪ̯tɹɪɑːkɪ/
System by which men are held collectively responsible for everything objectionable. Useful both analytically and for shouting.
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…inherently oppressed women who were said by those present to be suffering under the hegemonic scourge of the patriarchy. The budgerigar had evidently not undertaken more than the most cursory exploration of the coils and bifurcations of the impenetrable thicket of gender theory, for she singularly failed to engage with the dialectic of the theoreticians in that assembly, rather contenting herself with the idle repetitions of a portion of a…