Western culture is founded on patriarchy, male domination and supremacy, in every sphere, from the household to the workplace, church, school and state. Patriarchy is the rule of men over wimmin, and the institutions and cultural practices used to keep men in this position of power. Patriarchy is a pillar of domination, standing with imperialism, statism, religion, heterosexism, and all other forms of domination, but also permeating every aspect of our lives. Patriarchal culture creates and proscribes rigid gender roles and punishes any transgression of them. All dominations are interconnected, and individual men and wimmin have varying degrees of power and privilege based on their class, ethnicity, race, physical and mental abilities, sexual orientation, and level of subservience or resistance to patriarchy and other domination.
All hierarchies are wrong as they are a practice of domination.
The abolition of domination and hierarchy is the responsibility of everyone. As men are the recipients of the power and privilege of male domination, and its agents imposing it on wimmin, men must identify and reject this legacy and current practice of brutality, conquest and power. There is more to be learned from wearing a dress for a day, than there is from wearing a suit for life.