Does the Patriarchy Still Exist? A Reader Asked Me to “Prove It.”

Here goes.

Kerala Taylor
6 min readFeb 21

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I’ll admit, I’m getting sick of hearing about the patriarchy.

The term has become a buzzword, bandied about to describe the root of everything that is wrong with our society, and world. In my two-plus years of writing on Medium, I myself have used it dozens (and dozens) of times.

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Kerala Taylor

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com