patriarchal
父权制,父权,父权制的,家长制
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- : of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc.: my father's conservative, patriarchal ways.
- : characteristic of an entity, family, church, etc., controlled by men: the highly patriarchal Mormon church.
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Instead, we can take inspiration from women like Elizabeth, a woman who—like so many others before her and long since—was declared insane by a patriarchal society simply for speaking her mind.
Sure, the Heidi Klums and Alessandra Ambrosios all walked with figures that represented a type of patriarchal oppression, but that was hardly their fault.
You come face to face with the machinery of patriarchal justice, because your word, as a female victim, is doubted at every turn.
As princesses, they typically have to learn to assert their agency within a restrictive, patriarchal society.
In the gross-out gags of Bridesmaids and Broad City as well as the strip-club revisionism of Hustlers and P-Valley, female creators have challenged the idea that raunchy humor and sexually explicit content must cater to patriarchal tastes.
And yes, that authoritarian, patriarchal guru-power structure, invariably, always leads to abuses.
In a patriarchal society—our society—a naked woman is a dangerous thing.
It seems that, in doing away with patriarchal authority, we have also, perhaps unwittingly, killed off all the grown-ups.
Never mind that the patriarchal belief system woven throughout the cartoon content is itself shockingly outdated.
Because marriage is a patriarchal, sexist institution that should be discarded rather than reformed.