So last week, gay conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos declared October 18 ”World Patriarchy Day.” Yiannopoulos wrote: “Feminists like to claim that there is a sinister cultural phenomenon known as ...

I’m not talking about a fairytale matriarchy from long ago and far away. I’m talking about a matriarchy here and now in northern California. I live in one, though I imagine that some might say that it ...

Thirty years ago, I traveled to Lijiang, an ancient city in the northwest of China's Yunnan province in the foothills of the eastern Himalayas. Lijiang's old town is a tangle of intersecting waterways ...

In a shocking turn of events, a binary societal structure based on the stereotypical attributes of one gender isn’t working out for everyone. Patriarchy, i.e. the current power structure that most of ...

The patriarchy, having been somewhat in retreat in parts of the world, is back in our faces. In Afghanistan, the Taliban once again prowl the streets more concerned with keeping women at home and in ...

My 17-year-old daughter and I are standing in line in the lobby of The Majestic 7, a new movie theater in Watertown’s Arsenal Yards. I’m wearing a hot pink beret and she a pink gingham blouse, and ...