So, I have been interested in this subject for quite a while, and the true reason for the fact that most societies in human history were patriarchal in nature (though definitely not all of them by a long shot) seems to come down to the way relationships and social hierarchies started to form after the agrarian revolution and the way humanity shifted away from nomadic lifestyles. Humanity before was relatively egalitarian apparently, men hunted, women hunted, men gathered, women gathered etc. There was no point in excluding half your population from getting the group resources.
In the following tribes/groups/whatever, social dynamics and property became more important. And especially family relations. And that was the important point: Men were able to have a ton of children with different women all at once, women were only able to bear children once every 9 months at best. This lessened their influence on the group over time, and strengthened that of men, and also shifted women towards becoming property of men. No BS about men just being stronger, better or whatever. It was an unlucky fluke of the new lifestyle interacting socially unfavorably with women.
Modern matriarchal societies are either nomadic or have very strict marriage and procreation rules to stop this from happening.
So there it is. Thousands of years of male superiority complexes and it all just comes down to being ‘lucky’ (and even that was only true for a few, not all men, the rest suffered under patriarchy just as much).
Interestingly, since familial relations are way less important nowadays for social standing (hyperrich families notwithstanding) and monogamy is widespread, patriarchal systems basically only exist anymore due to their own momentum, and their slow collapse was inevitable. All patriarchy fans are fighting a meaningless fight, even if all of feminism was forbidden and violently oppressed, it was only ever a fluke in the first place and will be gone sooner or later.
Deal with it.
