Actually

I think I'm going to leave it to Kathy G. and/or Susan to take down Megan's post on gender and privilege. I'm not sure if I'm fond of the blogger Megan is at least partially missing the point of in quoting, so I'm going to not walk into that particular minefield.
I would like to say I like the word kyriarchy, as opposed to patriarchy, a lot. The idea of a patriarchy blends too easily with misandry and reactionary positions, while yet encompassing some very real and important realities. Kyriarchy doesn't lend itself to the limiting binary dialectic inherent in patriarchy, instead encouraging a more detailed, nuanced, and realistic understanding of the manifold nature of human existence. Yes, I'm a guy so I have a stake in this, but I'm also a quasi-Platonist, so I appreciate good dialectics. Binary, bifurcatory, Hegelian dialectic seems, I think, to have a strong influence on some feminist thought, probably primarily through Marxism, and is something I'm very strongly opposed to, philosophically speaking. I could go on, but I don't know that anyone reading this would really want me to. Anyhow, sorry to pass it off to Kathy and Susan, but one has to know one's limits.