HW22: Patriarchy it's still Kickin

“The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from this scattered testimony, that England is under the rule or patriarchy” (Woolf 33). I think Woolf says this because the paper was written by a male, and in the chapter she tells the reader everything else he owns like, “He was the Foreign Secretary, and the Judge. He was the cricketer; he owned the racehorses and the yachts. He was the director of the company the pays tow hundred per cent to its shareholders” (Woolf 34). In my Social Problems class my professor said “America is run by men for men,” and I think that is kind of what Woolf is trying to tell us. Then males in the society at the time she is writing still had control over the woman and they owned things and woman were just another piece of property. I think in today’s 2007 society in some ways it is still a Patriarchy Society but not anywhere near what it used to be when my grandparents were younger. I think if people came here that had no idea about the changes American’s have seen over the years, that they would see a Patriarchy Society because males are still in all the high positions and I personally feel that males have the final say in everything that happens in our society.