Your plan to overthrow patriarchy

If I was PM-dictator I would

1. Make early year childcare a priority. Improve welfare for children so no woman ever feels the need to stay in a marriage. Generally economic and social policies which prioritise women and children.

2. . Put nordic model for prostitution and ban making porn that depicts penetration/ regulate porn online (I don't know how)

Very true; I was earwigging what appeared to possibly be a first date earlier or something else of two young serious university educated types earlier.

The bloke proclaimed he was agnostic but had read a lot about religion and the reason for it. He cited an example of witches being burned because people didn't understand mental illness. Whereas today we do.

I bit my tongue and thought, well sonny Jim, that's not quite the whole story there but I'll not embarrass you.

Promoting secularism is generally helpful, as many religions are bastions of the patriarchy.

I barely have time to meal plan let alone timeline plan for patriarchal smashing.

I'm challenging sexist shit when I see it at every opportunity and teaching my two boys what I can when appropriate.

What's Grabsthars said.

Oh OP, really? Overthrowing the patriarchy by starting a petition to inform a misogynist institution that they have problem with institutional misogyny? That's given me a smile on this wet day. They don't care, that's kind of the problem.

The fact is that "the patriarchy" isn't actually a monster that we can unite to kill with swords and stuff. This isn't a game of thrones episode. It's everywhere, from the highest level politicians passing laws that harm women, to the doctor who dismisses female patients as hysterical, or the retail industry that designs products with men as the default user unless it's something connected to women's work. The problem isn't just institutional, it's internalised, to the point that most people can't even see it. And as long as we operate within a system that discriminates against women, there's only so much we can do. We can pass laws to give us certain rights, but as we're seeing now those laws can be repealed at any time if it serves men. We can criminalise certain behaviour but if the justice system refuses to enforce those laws then they're useless. You really think there are no "rallying cries" going on already for police not to ignore the abuse of women? They don't care. They just simply do not care.

But anyway. I'm not saying stop fighting, we should definitely keep plugging away with our laws and our incremental changes. But as long as our rights need to be specifically legislated for by a system run by and for men, they are only really on lone. At the end of the day the only thing that will really change anything is a global and radical re-conceptualising of what power, progress, success, and equality should actually look like. And spoiler alert, it won't leave men at the top. So, sorry to piss on your chips but unless you think they're likely to go for that I'd stop wasting your time looking for the fatal blow to kill the dragon and spend it finding more efficient ways to put out the fires.

Overthrowing is in itself a patriarchal concept. Ending the patriarchy means conceptualising something different to patriarchy just being run by women instead of men.

One of the few positive things about this current ugly resurgence of male supremacy is the number of average, every day women who wouldn't have called themselves feminist or thinking much about it, suddenly starting to notice and realise that there are major issues associated with female biology, that equality isn't achieved, that this isn't acceptable, and are starting to talk, and meet and organise. Womens rights is starting to become an issue that isn't the preserve of a small group of people framed as a bit 'odd'.

So it's how do women make a difference in the world? What do they do? How do they get things done and organise together? It's often based in grass roots basic action.

I think modern young women would be shocked to the core by the society I lived in as a youngster.
I think that's part of the problem, they should be aware of their own history and instead they are divorced from it.

There have been several attempts at petitions, for example to get the government to record crimes committed by sex not gender. I've signed those but I don't think I'd sign a petition to overthrow the patriarchy, it would be a situationist joke.

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Apparently not.
There's a hierarchy dontcha know.

So my plan is that all women should unite in all democratic countries

Don't they need feminism in undemocratic ones then?

Well said Babdoc.

Storming the barricades and plotting bloody revolution to overthrow the patriarchy in one fell swoop is the stuff of fantasy, OP.
Reality is much more mundane, but does get results. If you’d lived as long as I have, you’d have seen huge improvements in many areas, achieved by lobbying, organising, consciousness raising, petitioning etc.
When I was born, abortion was illegal, marital rape was legal, there were no women’s refuges, women couldn’t get a loan without a male guarantor, contraception was only for married women, there was no Equal Pay Act, women couldn’t graduate from Cambridge, London medical schools had quotas to limit women students to 10% of places, sexist abuse was entrenched, sanpro couldn’t even be advertised on tv, women couldn’t be church ministers or bishops, school lessons were sex segregated so girls were forced to do cookery, not technical drawing, and trousers were forbidden at school even in winter. There was no Women’s World Cup in football.
I think modern young women would be shocked to the core by the society I lived in as a youngster.
We as feminists have made massive progress so far, and should be proud of that, as well as continuing the fight with our same humdrum old methods that get results.

I have a hobby horse and this^ is mine

I would remove the word gender from all official documents and revert it back to the correct word, sex.

And,
Unlike some, I would actually tell people what I am about to do.

Why?
Because I care about people especially women and children.

Teach our children. That’s my plan.

I'd make illegal the vilification of DV survivors, and single mothers.

I'd make long term community service for perpetrators of DV and sexual related crimes mandatory...

... And would drastically toughen up laws, conviction rates, sentences, etc for these crimes

I'd make dressing in drag illegal.

I'd bring in laws to properly even out equality between mothers and fathers.

I'd announce a comprehensive public enquiry into the trans cult.

I'd ban puberty blockers.

I'd block gender reassignment without full psychiatric assessment.

Let us all hold hands together.

There's a start.

So my plan is that all women should unite in all democratic countries

Good luck

I think demolishing the patriarchy is like eating an elephant- tackle whatever small chunk is nearest you.

OP, have just read this out to female partner and visiting female friends. Thanks for the laugh.

Who are the 'us here' you're referring to? Are you the elite squad of the women's army?

I’m going to release exploding sex bots. That’ll do it.

Ditto LangCleg

Mine's to avoid making (patriarchal) imperious demands of other women.

Most of my plan is focused on bringing up my sons to be genuinely non-sexist, to see the patriarchy in action everywhere and see the damage it does. I hope that this will be a small step towards a future generation full of enough non-sexists to effect real change. We are far too few in number for now.

That consultation link posted above is no good - deadline for submissions was 2nd August.