You blogroll "I blame the patriarchy" and indeed many of your posts do blame the patriarchy. Since you blogroll I blame the patriarchy (a pretty interesting and funny blog by the way) google is of little help telling us how many articles you have published that blame the patriarchy.

But is the patriarchy a testable theory?

I have never seen a single post anywhere that discusses what a world without the patriarchy looks like.

I can point to all sorts of blogs, short stories, movies, songs, articles, blooks, that discuss what a world looks like with racism, or without sexism,

But I've never seen a single anything that says what the world looks like without a patriarchy.

I am not saying the patriarchy is a good thing, or a bad thing, or something we need or don't need.

I am saying you folks have never defined it in a testable way. As something that can be measured. As something that we can determine has gone away, or been reduced, or been supplanted by... By what?

I have no idea what you feminists envision as the world without the patriarchy. What sort of culture or governance or economics or science or education or art or ... or we would have.

I just see posts that blame everything on men in general, and often on white men in particular.

Is "patriarchy theory" a useful theory for young women? Or is it a cult dead end? A scape goat? A whine? A power grab?

Hey Joan,

Check out what your own magazine is claiming:

http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/04/18/va_tech/index.html

"Would things -- would anything -- have been different if the first shooting had not initially been considered isolated as "domestic"?"

All that being said, it isn't that the pay gap is entirely attributable to gender. "The evidence shows that even when the 'explanations' for the pay gap are included in a regression, they cannot fully explain the pay disparity," the report concludes. "The regressions for earnings one year after college indicate that when all variables are included, about one quarter of the pay gap is attributable to gender. That is, after controlling for all the factors known to affect earnings, college-educated women earn about 5 percent less than college-educated men earn."

That is, the gender based portion of the wage gap is five percent.

now that Jessica has seen the study that says teh gender based portion of the wage gap is only 5%, that she will never say it's 23% again at her blog.