In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
- Genesis 1:1
Smash the patriarchy.
That’s a common turn of phrase these days. And those who use it fell fully justified in their doing so.
After all, it’s self-evident that patriarchy is an evil social construct from the benighted past that cannot be removed from society fast enough. For those slow to embrace the revolution, opprobrium, exclusion and possibly even violence await.
Patriarchy, in the eyes of a doctrinaire feminist, is merely a social construct. Feminists view man – a feminist likely would prefer a less “sexist” term such as humanity – as a blank slate whose thinking can be shaped in one way just as easily as in another. In feminist thought, a matriarchy is just as natural as a patriarchy. Traditional sex roles – man as primary breadwinner, wife as keeper at home – could be changed to a 50/50 partnership in all things, or even flipped on its head.
Put another way, the historic relationship between men and women is merely a convention such as deciding which side of the road to drive on. In America, we drive on the right side of the road. In Great Britain, Australia, and Japan, they drive on the left side of the road. It really doesn’t matter which side of the road you drive on. The important thing is that every agrees which side.
But in feminist thought, it’s not enough to say that patriarchy is a convention. In feminist thought, patriarchy is oppression, a system designed by men to unfairly keep women from achieving their full potential. Such an unjust system must be smashed.
According to the article “Smash The Patriarchy: 8 Ways To Do It With Love And Compassion,” smashing the patriarchy, “refers to challenging the dominant social, political, cultural, and economic thoughts that value the idea of hegemonic, toxic masculinity over everything.”
Feminists, it seems, have made a Baal out of smashing the patriarchy together with all it supposed toxic masculinity. While King Jehu feigned to serve Baal much, the feminists have actually done so and reaped the rewards of their choice.
It’s not unusual to find articles talking about how much more unhappy and stressed out women are today compared with their mothers and grandmothers. Unable to account for this phenomenon, the simultaneous success of women smashing the patriarchy and their increasing unhappiness, secular writers have taken to calling it “The Paradox of Declining Female Happiness.”
Lux Lucet 
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