It is important to recognize patriarchy as a system and not an individual identity because it affects people and society as a whole no matter the background.  Take abortion as an example, the laws and bills being passed are conduct by male politicians who are politicizing what a woman should with her body. They are manipulating the system by using this unwritten rule to tell women when they can or can not abort a baby that they might feel like they are too young to give birth to or even sexual assault. Women feel trapped like they do not get to have freedom in this decision and as well believe they do not have control over their own bodies. The patriarchy not only affects women, it also affects men too. One group of men it impacts are LBGT+ males.  Their suicide rates are higher than the heterosexual males. It affects males’ mental health. When we talk about this subject, males are always having to put on a mask in front of society whilst females do not. To suck it up and follow the rules of the patriarchy. If one doesn’t have a drop of masculinity then he isn’t a real man.  Sexuality means that in a patriarchal setup, heterosexuality is and should be the norm. Other sexual preferences are seen as violation of patriarchal norms and therefore liable to be punished by society. It justifies the objectification of women and the male gaze and women being perceived as instruments of male gratification. In the cultural level of oppression, males describe “normal” or “beautiful” standards as females being hairless, obedient, feminine and even something as complicated as not too skinny but not fat either. It does not stop there though. With institutional level of oppression, work spaces or even school it is supposed to be normal to do the same job while the males get paid higher. In school, girls are supposed to dress a certain way that does not distract males which in reality is false. The system needs to look at this matter and discuss it further because we should not be responsible for males not being able to focus. We ourselves have some body shapes and even features we just can not control. All of these levels influence each other with the patriarchy system because they all discuss and show how males tend to have behaviors or scenarios where the female is always put under intentional or unintentional.