# The Patriarchy Scam (Part 2 of 3) Date: 2025-09-24 Next Part: https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/the-patriarchy-scam.part3.md Previous Part: https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/the-patriarchy-scam.part1.md --- Not just quitness but “full submission”. Here again is this strange attitude towards lessers. Even assuming men were gods compared to women, it doesn’t follow that women should be submissive. Of what use is the lesser beings acts of submission to a god? Does an ant bringing me a bread crumb somehow boost my standing? Does claiming I have nothing to learn from an ant, which is definitely untrue, make me a more impressive person? Respect can really only be displayed by one equal to another. Forcefully collecting respect from lessers is hollow and meaningless. It is impossible for Jesus to model receiving respect so long as the bible presents him as more than human. A Christian man seeking respect has only cringe asymmetric relationships to guide him. For instance Lazarus is sometimes described as Jesus’s friend but then > Jesus tells his followers: “This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.” Imagine I block an ant, watch it suffer trying to get around the obstacle, and then remove the obstacle and proclaim, “Praise me.” So when Christian nationalists pursue respect it is in the form of asymmetric relationships with their own promotion above lessers. Stephen Miller’s [tribute speech](https://newrepublic.com/post/200727/stephen-miller-charlie-kirk-tribute) embodies this: > You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. Again suppose even Christian nationalists are some sort of god like creators and everyone else is nothing — still what do they get out of putting woke people, immigrants, black people, and LGBTQ in their place? Instead of respect Martin Luther King [focused](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/loving-your-enemies-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church) on love: > And this is what Jesus means when he said: “How is it that you can see the mote in your brother’s eye and not see the beam in your own eye?” Or to put it in Moffatt’s translation: “How is it that you see the splinter in your brother’s eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?”[3](https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/loving-your-enemies-sermon-delivered-dexter-avenue-baptist-church#fn3) And this is one of the tragedies of human nature. So we begin to love our enemies and love those persons that hate us whether in collective life or individual life by looking at ourselves. ### Modern Patriarchy Steve Bannon on not [supporting](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/02/steve-bannon-is-obsessed-with-the-patriarchy?srsltid=AfmBOoo-XY68Zm4MdWxP8u-TFJVC912BBcsnQzvq8Ugg9Dki-RcgHYkj) #TimesUp > What I do know is that it’s against what I call the patriarchy — it’s against the way things have been run for the previous 4,000, 5,000, 10,000 years. It’s just opposed to that. If conservatives were opposed to new things they would be against tech billionaires, climate change, and even capitalism. Mostly modern patriarchy is about dominating women into doing extra work, work that men don’t want to do, or investing in patriarchy approved types of work. Where previously patriarchy involved controlling inheritance, marriage alliances, ensuring women continued to bear children even though it was dangerous, and the same for men and war, all of that is mostly gone. Modernly a Margaret Thatcher type isn’t anti patriarchy. Only women who would help other women not be dominated are an issue. Where previously “witch” hunts cost around 35,000 women their lives, modernly the stakes are usually lower. The incident of rape is still [deplorably](https://www.ussc.gov/sites/default/files/pdf/research-and-publications/quick-facts/Sexual_Abuse_FY18.pdf) high, but getting away with sexual abuse isn’t the main driver of modern patriarchy. Even the slowly crumbling average man bonus is no longer a main patriarchy driver. The main driver for patriarchy is now just keeping an American male [economic casino](https://ff.co/women-funding-statistics-2025/) open. ![Image](https://disrael.github.io/blogs/assets/the-patriarchy-scam-a9294cf809.png) Even the grandiose term “AI” reflects a patriarchal need for exaggeration and [domination](https://www.library.hbs.edu/working-knowledge/women-are-avoiding-using-artificial-intelligence-can-that-hurt-their-careers). > Women are adopting generative AI technology at a significantly lower rate than men, in many cases because women question whether it’s ethical to use the tools, according to research by Rembrand Koning and colleagues. In tech domination has been working this way: 1. Focus on a new and unregulated industry 2. Use the proceeds to dominate government and prevent attempts to clean up the resulting mess 3. Find a newer unregulated industry However this whole playbook can be run without patriarchy except for one problem — it requires vast amounts of investment and bonding together on domination makes that [investment easier](https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-moguls-jeffrey-epstein-connected-bill-gates-elon-musk-2019-8). Steve Bannon understands the result of [patriarchy for oligarchs](https://www.npr.org/2025/01/19/nx-s1-5254112/donald-trump-elon-musk-steve-bannon-inauguration-day-2025-billionaires) > These oligarchs in Silicon Valley, they have a very different view of how people should govern themselves. I call it techno-feudalism. They don’t believe in the underlying tenets of self-governance. It’s just that Bannon is more about achieving those results for a MAGA base instead of stopping patriarchy altogether. ### The Patriarchy Scam Very few men have anything to gain from modern patriarchy. Under normal conditions most men know this and so patriarchy has been bloodlessly crumbling for a long time. That changed with gilded age inequality intersecting with baby bust intersecting with internet groups commenting on DEI. Now the body count will begin in America though weirdly the majority of the deaths will come from [segments of the population that supported Trump](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/03/trump-budget-bill). Meanwhile those who think modern patriarchy will shore up religious participation seem blind to the fact that modern patriarchy is destroying religious participation. America’s precipitous drop in religious attendance started with the crisis of sexual abuse cover up in Catholic churches. This cover up was pure patriarchy — men solely in charge allowing other men to get away with rape. Nor is church support for suppressing women’s control of their bodies likely to end well for religious participation. That’s the problem with aligning yourself with a 10,000 year old system; it’s unsuited to accomplish anything modern. AI is not modern — it’s [empire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_AI). So for most men patriarchy is a pure shit show that enables a fascist workplace that has now spilled over into a fascist federal government. What then makes patriarchy so popular? How does the patriarchy scam work? According to one [theory](https://nomas.org/understanding-patriarchy-and-mens-power/) it’s a Ponzi scheme: > Men do not just happily bond together to oppress women. In addition to hierarchy over women, men create hierarchies and rankings among themselves according to criteria of “masculinity.” Men at each rank of masculinity compete with each other, with whatever resources they have, for the differential payoffs that patriarchy allows men. And specifically in America: > Any kind of powerlessness or refusal to compete becomes imbued with imagery of homosexuality. --- **[Continue reading Part 3 of 3](https://disrael.github.io/blogs/raw/the-patriarchy-scam.part3.md)**