From the beginning of the feminist movement, I saw an army of angry, frustrated and vengeful women who had to blame men for their disappointments and psychic wounds. The ugliness of their positions, instead of attracting me, repulsed and alienated me. Even today, the old and tired rhetoric persists:

Almost all modern societal structures are patriarchal and are constructed in such a way that men are the dominant force in making the majority of political, economic, and cultural decisions. In large part, this is the case due to colonization and imperialism by Europeans. Part of the cultural erasures perpetrated by imperialism involved eliminating the many existing matrilineal societies across the world and instituting Western patriarchy instead. Feminism focuses on the idea that since women comprise one-half of the world population, true social progress can never be achieved without the complete and spontaneous participation of women.

As time went on, feminists refused to acknowledge the progress that women had made, and instead focused on the outdated diatribes: