Patriarchy wasn't invented. It was EARNED. Men didn't sit in a circle one day and say "how do we oppress women?" They were too busy trying not to let their entire bloodline get WIPED OUT by animals or invaders or bad weather. Before feminism. Before 9-5s. Before police. Before DoorDash. There was nature, and nature is TRYING TO KILL YOU. Someone has to kill the bear, the wolves before it kills your baby. Something has to fight the rival tribe that wants to rape your wife and behead your sons and steal your land. Something has to lift the boulders, chop the trees, climb the trees, build the wall, dig the trench, stand watch at 3AM in -20 degrees while his family sleeps. Who? Tell me who does that? Women? MEN DID IT. Because only men COULD do it. Patriarchy is not a conspiracy. It is biology meeting survival. Men took the role of the expendable sex because someone HAD to be expendable. And expendable they were. The deal was simple and brutal: Women are protected and cherished inside. Men are sacrificed outside. Women got safety. Men got the grave. That system built every civilization on earth. Every house you live in, every road you drive on, every freedom you have was paid for by male corpses you will never know the names of. So when you say "patriarchy oppresses women," what you really mean is "I'm ungrateful that men died so I could live long enough to hate them. If they had given you rights and freedom 400 yeats ago, humanity would have gone extinct.