Patriarchy took the thrones, the pulpits, the parliaments, the boardrooms, the history books, the language itself. It handed men the decision-making, the ruling, the naming of things and then told women their power was decorative. Soft. Supportive. Secondary. That lie has had such a long run that most women have stopped questioning it. But the lie was always fragile, because the truth underneath it is written into the chromosomes. And men, deep down, have always known. That's why the suppression had to be so total. You don't build a five-thousand-year cage around something weak. You build it around something you're terrified of.
