The word ‘patriarchy’ means a society in which male members have more social and political power than female members. It can be anywhere from the government to a family’s name comes from the male side of the family. Throughout generation, patriarchy developed from fathers, sons, uncles, and granddads and it begin passing down the male line and the female’s sovereignty decreasing. It is important to describe patriarchy as a system than an individual because it is a socially-constructed system in which males have the power and it factors from political leadership, business management religious institutions, economic systems, and many more right down to the family home where men are considered to be head of the household. This system has existed throughout the decade and patriarchy still exists. For example, if someone’s son holds the last name of the father who is famous, they want to continue holding the last name of their father’s last name, another example of patriarchy is where men make the rules while women stay home and take care of the kids. Patriarchy reinforces gender inequality against women by maintaining certain advantages in favor of men. Sometimes I believe patriarchy can be dangerous to women because it can lead to dangerous situations because can be disconnecting them from their emotions and frames seeking support as weakness. It can pressure men to conform to a narrow remedy to masculinity, to contend with one another, and prove their manhood by surrendering their individuality and denying their humanity.

Individuals can enact patriarchy through each level of oppression, while going through social media whether it’s Instagram, TikTok, or Facebook there have been women who are all about self-love when it comes to body hair, their body, or how confident they feel and they want to express it on the internet. There are women who are willing to dress whatever makes them happy and comfortable; however, there are times when patriarchy gets in the way because they are disgrading women what to wear and what not to wear based on their body weight, and especially believing that women cannot have body hairs and should lose some weight so they can look just like the models everyone sees on the magazines. This shows that patriarchy can work on each level of oppression influence one another because patriarchy is mostly shown as men showing male domination whether it’s cultural or social along with physical power to control women.