I hear what you say but I can't agree with you 100%. The point about patriarchy is it is entrenched in our various cultures. To change it will take a shift in cultural mindsets & that is almost too massive to contemplate. In the meantime, each of us has a responsibility for our own actions regardless of the regime we live under.

And for some of us ~ children for instance ~ we have no power whatsoever to change anything. Trafficked women have no choice & no power. In any culture that seriously oppresses women there is little choice & no chance at all of changing anything.