My mom says, patriarchy.

I would soon find out that there was a high price to pay for my freedom, and for questioning the patriarchy.

Discrimination against women, due to gender inequality, is multiple and compounded at the intersection of patriarchy and other sites of oppression, which subjugate women to a continuum of violence, making them susceptible to HIV AIDS.

Palestinian women continued to fight inequality and discrimination in order to play an active and influential role in their society but, as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women had noted in February 2005, they faced two systems of subordination occupation and patriarchy.

Militarism and patriarchy are inextricably linked, and both view masculinity as the opposite of femininity. If soldiers and, by extension, all real men are strong and daring, then real women should be the antithesis passive, obedient, and in need of protection as good wives, sisters, and mothers.

As patriarchy intersects with other sites of oppression such as class, race, ethnicity, displacement, etc., discrimination becomes compounded, forcing the majority of the world's women into situations of double or triple marginalization , as stated by the former Special Rapporteur Radhika Coomaraswamy (A CONF.189 PC.3 5, para.

An entire academic discipline emerged out of the wholesale critique of the male tendency to create hierarchy, engage in territoriality, and be drawn to conflict. When I was in college, the feminist solution to patriarchy was an imagined world without hierarchy, where people verbalized all day long and created emotional bonds.

According to the South African NGO People Opposing Women Abuse, polygamy is enhanced through patriarchy, encouraging the dominance of the man in these polygamous relationships, thereby shifting the balance of power in favour of the man and not encouraging women to negotiate and exercise control over their sexual intimacies with their husband.

A working paper for NGOs, Beijing 10 Review A Feminist Strategy for 2004 05 (prepared through a consultation process by the Center for Global Women's Leadership) states In order to move forward, feminists need to take back the initiative, re insert patriarchy into the equation, and address the overarching challenges posed by neoliberal globalization, militarism, and fundamentalisms that threaten the gains made for women's rights.

And I want you imagine that at some point in history a group of powerful people invested in owning and controlling the world understood that the suppression of this particular cell, the oppression of these cells, the reinterpretation of these cells, the undermining of these cells, getting us to believe in the weakness of these cells and the crushing, eradicating, destroying, reducing these cells, basically began the process of killing off the girl cell, which was, by the way, patriarchy.