I'm defining patriarchy by the historical and sociological definition rather than the feminist definition. The wiki you linked is still a bit reductive and fails to take into account the larger sociological implications. Patriarchy is a dominance based hierarchy that has as one aspect male domination and control of women, but that is not the only salient part. If you look at human history we go from a time of intentional egalitarianism where women had the same social and economic standing as men - because everyone had equal standing in the tribe - to a place in history where that changed dramatically. Ignoring that is ignoring 97% of human experience.

"Today, most anthropologists would agree, regardless of their stance on issues such as the universality of male dominance, that an entirely different order of male dominance became associated with the rise of the large and populous agricultural states organized in terms of classes. The patriarchal systems that emerged brought women for the first time under the direct control of fathers and husbands with few cross-cutting sources of support. Women as wives under this system were not social adults, and women’s lives were defined in terms of being a wife. Women’s mothering and women’s sexuality came to be seen as requiring protection by fathers and husbands. Protecting unmarried women’s virginity appears to go along with the idea of the domestication of women and an emphasis on a radical dichtomy between the public and the private sphere."

I'm quoting to you from Science magazines and anthropologists and you're linking me a story on Medium by some random guy. 🙄