Is patriarchy gone or hiding in plain sight? (with Kate Manne)

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Read the full transcript here. • If progress is real but uneven, what metrics actually matter—outcomes, perceptions, or lived vulnerability? When we say “things are better,” who is included in that claim and who is quietly excluded? How do entrenched family structures continue to shape expectations about labor, care, and authority even when people consciously reject them? What does it mean to say a system persists not as law but as default assumptions about who owes what to whom? If patriarchy is no longer absolute but still influential, how should we diagnose its presence without overstating or minimizing it? When biological explanations are introduced, are they clarifying reality or…