“You had a patriarchy attack! Like a panic attack or a heart attack – but a patriarchy attack.” She shook her head now as we remembered the incident. “Patriarchy colonizes our brains like a virus,” she said. It was an apt comparison. Like a virus, patriarchy harms the systems that it infects and relies on replication to survive. It flourishes in those who are not aware of its presence, and sometimes even in those actively working to expel it.”
