Is looking down on women a sign of patriarchy?

Disparaging women is a manifestation of male chauvinism, they can not face up to the value of women, that men are supreme, and women are only as subordinate existence.

China's patriarchal society has lasted for thousands of years, and only Li Zhi of the Ming Dynasty advocated equality between men and women in feudal society, and it was not until the modern era that feminist ideas from the West were introduced into the country that equality between men and women was taken seriously. Since patriarchy has existed for so long, it must have its own rationale. In the era of agrarian economy, men were physically more productive, which made women have to rely on men to survive.

What happened was that men dominated the household in terms of economic income, and women were left to do the housework and take care of the children, and their status became less and less valued, which led to the tradition of the "man on the outside and the woman on the inside". This has led to women becoming men's tools of reproduction, being instilled with the values of "the three obediences and the four virtues", and even forming the evil custom of foot-binding, just to satisfy men's deformed aesthetics.

While contemporary society advocates equality between men and women, the remnants of the male chauvinism that originated in the patriarchal society are still present and have a profound influence on this group of male chauvinists.

Until now, women's housework is still considered by many to be a natural thing, no matter how tired the woman back to work, or to give the man laundry cooking and care of the children, while the man just focus on drinking tea and smoking and watching TV, waiting for the opening of the meal. The fact is that this is a commonplace pattern of division of labor in the family, which has a subtle influence on the child, so that the child feels that the woman in the family will have to serve the man.

This habit is more likely to be reflected in families with a boy and a girl, where the girl has to learn to do the housework, and the boy will be scolded for doing it, which is very common in the countryside. Not only that, to relatives and friends home guests, women in the kitchen after half a day of busy will not go to the table and the men to eat together, but in the kitchen to simply eat a little to fill their stomachs. The girls in the family will not go to the table to eat, and if they sit with the men at the same table, they will be regarded as not knowing how to be polite and uneducated.