In the conference “patriarchy the system” we can see how Johnson does a great job explaining what patriarchy really is and how it originated. He explains how many times we blame society for why they are so sexist or because they are so discriminatory, but society itself is us. We created society so intent on criticizing anyone who is different, by the very fact that we grew up and felt it was right to criticize and follow the crowd. It is the same system that created society, that gave it the right and power to affect us whatever they want to criticize, instead of stepping forward and being what we actually feel we are or want to be. With this, he directs us to what patriarchy really is, as the system itself, we ourselves were what allowed men to have any right and women not. it is extremely sad, the fact that in his time and even some other person, a man is applauded for having had sex with a girl and then leaving her, but he is criticized for a girl having sex with a boy and then I left it. This is the same side of the coin, about how it is said that there is currently no patriarchy, when in our system we continue to do this. The fact that we have to see patriarchy as a system that encompasses any society, culture or even religion can show us how damaged and harmful society was and is in its time. I say the fact that the system is still harmful, despite all the movements that exist to have gender equality and not a system that focuses on the man being the only one with rights.

 The very fact that a while ago in high school we talked about patriarchy, and the teacher brought up whether we agreed that a man hit a woman for not doing “household duties for women”, and two girls raised their hands saying yes they agreed, at the time what I thought was a joke. But you saw the absurd reasons that the girls gave that surprised me and made me feel so sorry, the fact that the same cultures and the system they are developed, got used to seeing women in an inferior position than men. I see this case similar to Lorde’s reading “There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions”, because it tells us about how she feels oppressed both by her race and her gender. He tells us about how everything is fine today and many people help change, but in his time this distinction did not exist and they only threw you at the stake for being different. I feel that the same system did a lot of damage to both women and anyone who is different, because in their time women may have felt that they were okay with the patriarchy, because of the same system, but now today I also feel that we are being more sensible in our decisions. As now we concentrate on being able to create a change and focus on what is more important, what the individual really wants and not what should be “right”. Because from everything I’ve seen, nothing is right or wrong, everyone has a way of seeing things and it’s better that they learn it their way and not exercise a vision of how it should be. I understand the fact that individual identity, I participate in creating society and the system, but for that very reason we have the right to be able to destroy it.