Patriarchy is a regularly, and varied, emergent feature thereof. It is not a necessary feature of the human condition.

Excellent.  From Patterns of patriarchy by Lorenzo Warby.  Old style sociology and anthropology grounded in the real world rather than the namby-pamby nonsense from reform Marxists in Academia.  The subheading is Patriarchy is both common and varied.

He has a lot of useful background which is engaging.  Plenty with which to agree, some with which to split hairs.  

A pattern has developed where feminists use the label patriarchy to blame men for anything that makes them unhappy. This includes refusing to take responsibility for any concomitant obligations — such as suppressing negative traits common among women — that emerge from social positions that they take to be their due but not their responsibility.

Another sign of women not being the social solidarity sex.

What is sought in an outcome without unwelcome constraints, of fully realised autonomy. What evolutionary biology teaches us is that various constraints, including all sorts of awkward human variabilities, are built in.

This unrealisable ambition leads to deep resentment of what is labelled patriarchy. Men allegedly have autonomy that women lack. Patriarchy becomes a thing assigned a role and form by Theory, rather than something we can understood with analytical tools available to us.

Such autonomy — freed of all annoying constraints — is a deeply anti-Darwinian ambition. We have evolved cooperative subsistence and reproduction strategies — both physiologically and cognitively — to deal with constraints.

Cooperation increases possibilities but it also requires constraints on autonomy. This means only societies of ordered liberty can create such levels of social freedom as Homo sapiens can attain.

So, those who embrace the above strain of thought are not, in any useful sense, committed to building a successful future. That would require accepting the reality of our evolved nature and capacities. Instead, what one gets is rageful social corrosion, a shrieking critique of everything that leads nowhere productive.

This makes things worse without the better somehow magically arising out of the corrosion.

Human societies are built out of interactive life-strategies, as our evolved capacities react to the constraints and opportunities that we encounter. Patriarchy is a regularly, and varied, emergent feature thereof. It is not a necessary feature of the human condition. Aiming to do better is fine.

Trying to do so while wilfully refusing to accept the reality that everything social is emergent from the biological — while nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution — is destructive nonsense. As is treating half the human race as oppressors whose interests and concerns are not to be given equal weight in evolving societies better structured for human flourishing.