It took me a few minutes to get out of “fight mode” to respond to this.
I think that this politics stuff is actually very closely related to the Law of One in fact. It is the technical rules surrounding politics and misrepresented “facts” that lead to a lot of real world “distortions” between people. I.e. racism and reasons people might have for it. The history of feminism. These things change a lot about how we relate in real life.
I will give an example. I remember in the UK I was on facebook groups back around the time that “UKIP” was still a thing. There was a woman that was putting really racist stuff on this group. Most people in these groups are not racist, but every so often you see something really nasty from someone that really takes that stuff seriously. Anyway, eventually the story came out. The musllims in her area had started a sex trafficking ring and were turning the town into a crime ridden hell hole. I relaxed a lot more after that.
I will skip over answering your question/ thoughts directly. I will bring in an example of mine to illustrate something about gender dynamics in my own life. I think it will say more of what is relevant.
This is the basis of the red pill. It is it’s theoretical root. This one graph is a big thing that explains the world. Important to note is that women uniformly refuse to see this often:
What it basically says, as is the pattern with my parents and my half sisters parents relationship as well. Is that a lot of women sleep around a lot in their twenties with the top tier guys shown. What you would call the “alphas” - that have so many options they usually go through these girls quickly. “Pump and dump” so to speak. Then once their twenties are over, they try and find a guy to settle down with in their thirties. But the guys they can get in their thirties are not at all the same guys that are available to them in their twenties.
I have seen sets of tweets from women saying “Women don’t want to have to settle down, it’s a boring slave existence” in their twenties. Then 5-10 years later “Hook up culture is disgusting and I hate that I ever engaged in it”.
The point being, going to your point number four now. I have a half sister. She is attractive and in her twenties. She is the kind of person I prefer to not have to deal with to be honest because she is deeply disrespectful. Just cancels things out of nowhere and makes no effort to maintain the relationship.
Speaking to her only briefly I know though that she has this mindset. She has had the option of literal millionaires. But she really likes being incrediby flaky and enjoying the status she has.
So what is going to happen? She simply doesn’t believe emotionally life will ever change. The world, seeming as much biology as propaganda, does a lot to keep women ignorant of a lot of truths. Men don’t come up to them and say, “damn, you are really hot, my heart rate goes up by 10bpm when I am in your presence, I want to breathe in your fertility and my desire has overtaken my rational faculties”. No, they say “Wow, your opinions and such are very interesting”.
A lot of women think they are more interesting than they are for this kind of reason. So they are utterly unprepared when the attention starts to trail off as they age. For instance, it probably would never happen, but she is not prepared for a future where she would have some need of me and having behaved with disrespect, probably due to the attention she gets, has not served her well.
She is also not prepared for not having the attention of literal millionaires that she currently doesn’t particularly appreciate. Also, and this is important. In the past women did have men to settle down with in their thirties. But now men are vicious, vicious against that. So when I go on red pill content and see them talking down 304’s I know that if this were the case, my half sister will be subjected to that.
So, this feeling I have towards her is the root of this patriarchal tradition you’re mainstream thought has taught you to dislike. But is it really controlling in an unloving manner?
I know, that she doesn’t know, that the emotional commitment she has that everything will work out and things won’t change isn’t actually true. I know what men are like and this dynamic exactly. I also know that men now have sayings such as “Women give as little of their youth and fertility to their husbands”. That the very good suitors she currently has, she could very well pay deeply for not taking them seriously.
She doesn’t have family to fall back on. Her ability to find a partner is really important for her to not stay at the lower classes.
In this instance, even though I can’t exercise this power. I am in the position in a sense of “patriarch”. I want to control her in a sense, sit down with her and make sure she understands these realities. That she does not want to look at as they are “bad vibes”.
If I did that and she listened she might settle down with a millionaire and escape the life she is heading down. I would be happy to never see her again if this was the case as he probably would not want to relate to me. But the path she is headed down since she has the ‘freedom’ and encouragement from “friends” to be feminist and progressive, is one of likely misery.
Unless she gets lucky, which is rare. She will flutter around in the shallow waters, jumping from relationship to relationship to enjoy the first few years of courting. Then start to feel real panic when she gets to say, late twenties, and settles down with a guy, (or in modern days with the red pill, perhaps not). Either way bitterly regretting not taking her options seriously in her twenties and the life she could have had.
So, since this perspective sounds like it is outside your experience. I thought it might help you to see where I am coming from. I am not saying you should agree but I am saying that this is the point of the traditions where the men controlled the women a great deal. Is it control? If I was to speak to my sister I would not say that she had to marry so on so. But I would say this is what might happen if you do what you are doing. This is your potential future. I get if you are not in love with the rich guy and that was just a “sleeper” or “situationship”. Maybe not that one. But you should take your life damn seriously and attempt to move up in social status by marrying and having children young.
I would say that a lot of the motivation in those patriarchy’s you talked about, from the men, is more loving than you are perceiving. Mens love and womens love is not precisely the same.
Also, one thing I just thought to add here. These traditions didn’t just “control” women. In the Wild West, in the brief period between the freedom first enjoyed and when the Federal government moved in. About 30% of weddings were shotgun weddings (and sometimes that meant a literal shotgun at the wedding). If you get the girl pregnant in the Wild West, you had to get married. I think a lot of girls today would appreciate that.