• Why is it important to recognize patriarchy as a system and not an individual identity?
• While patriarchy is a system, individuals enact patriarchy in their personal thoughts, interpersonal actions, as members of institutions, and in the structures of our culture. Use the levels of oppression outlined below, to discuss how patriarchy might work at each level and how those levels influence one another.

Before anything I think we should identify the word patriarchy, it can be a society or even individuals who participate in it.

The point the article is trying to prove is that it is easy to assume and blame society for all our problems, this includes the way we act and think. We cannot assume an individual belongs to a society, for example poverty and class oppression comes from the upper class being greedy, cruel, and heartless.

The mistake that we often make is that we often like to point fingers and blame the so called system for patriarchy. We never sit down to think what makes the system an actual group and who is involved in it. We cannot keep blaming systems for our social problems.

Race, gender, and class oppression are not actual oppression. However that what white men with power makes us think oppression is.Women oppression comes from men who want to dominate women and out of hostility word them.

Thinking outside the box :Sick and angry men who do dumb decisions such as abuse/rape and other dangerous activities, should be questioned. What would make these men act or think this way, what is the cause? What type of society would produce this type of men 

We are the individuals who make systems, live in them, accept it, identify and participate in them, just like the author mentions it all the time we have to be more aware if our actions if we want change. Family, religion, economy, peoples lives are shaped to these groups.It is not like we do not know how to communicate towards each other, we do it all the time when we complain, in order to earn power we have to we have to develop some type of personal identity relation to other people. Remember that patriarchy is composed of certain types of social relationships, when we are in groups we are more likely to be influenced by other actions or words.