I know you read this before, because I tagged you in it at the time, and I know that Yael is well aware of this too. The primary issue is with the power structure, and that is still firmly held in male hands, so yes, women contribute to this social system, but it costs them a lot to buck it. Asking women to solve this issue is like asking blacks to solve racism. Sure, they can contribute in really important ways, but until the power structure decides to reinvent itself, there is only so far that we can get.
Many women uphold patriarchy, despite the ways that it disadvantages them, because of the ways that it feeds into greed and fear but also an unwillingness to pay the price for bucking the system. Misogyny is the policing arm of patriarchy, and women who deviate from what is expected of them by patriarchal standards often find themselves facing censure and punishment for that — from men but also from other women. But also, this is the ocean we’ve all been swimming in our entire lives and all of recent human history. And because we’ve absorbed the rules (as stated above) through a kind of cultural osmosis, adherence to them is often subconscious.
