And once again, you've demonstrated that you have no concept of what it is like to live in a world where people have different kinds of traumatic experiences than you have ever had or will ever know. Little girls start getting sexually harassed at about age 10 and it's a pervasive and on-going experience for most women for at least the next several decades, if not for the rest of their lives. If you cannot conceive of how horrendous that is, what that does to a little girl's soul and sense of self, how fundamentally dehumanizing it is to have people touch her at will without her say-so, to have other people treat her body like it belongs to them and not to her, then you are in fact, a part of the problem.
Black people also get their skin and hair routinely touched without permission on a regular basis and also find it demunanizing and just one of the many micro-aggressions that they suffer which grinds them down over time. But you don't understand this because you can't truly empathize with someone who has had different life experiences than you have. You've been poor. You know the hardship of that and the many ways it can grind a person down but you've never been discriminated against in a systemic way, and so you can't grasp how harmful that is even though I've given you examples of how these experiences cause PTSD, depression, eating disorders, sleep problems, etc.
Characterizing elements of racism and misogyny as "not real problems" that don't cause actual suffering is really beyond the pale, but also what I've come to expect from guys like you. I get that you have no frame of reference for how bad this stuff can be, but what I don't forgive is that you aren't even attempting to understand. And yes, literally all of America's problems are tied up in patriarchy, because it's a social system centered around a dominance-based hierarchy that is about more than just a gendered power differential. It's the root cause of sexism, but also racism, homophobia, ablism, as well as classism and the belief that people who are poor are that way because they deserve it.
Why don't you stop deflecting and actually learn something? Poverty is devastating and it's part of a larger system of systemic oppression that is central to living in a patriarchal dominance hierarchy.
"The first sentence of the New Scientist quote is important because it speaks to a central aspect of patriarchy — social stratification. This was the first time that class distinctions or significant hierarchy came into widespread use, and they were maintained by force or the threat of violence. This is an important aspect of patriarchy — a social system that embraces and rewards ruthlessness and a might makes right mentality. This is distinctly different from a time when the wellbeing of the entire clan or settlement was a primary survival strategy."
