Definitions

Patriarchy--patriarchy is the system of social relations dominated by patriarchs--people playing the role of owning wimmin and children, usually in an extended or nuclear family unit today.

Matriarchy--a system of social relations in which wimmin or mothers dominate.

Gender bureaucracy--analogous to the "labor bureaucracy" Lenin spoke of, the gender bureaucracy consists of the ideological representatives of the gender aristocracy mediating the alliance between the gender aristocracy and the patriarchy and spreading variations on patriarchal ideology. A fictional example would be the "Fairy Godmother" in "Shrek 2."

Gender bureaucrats lead organizations that are exactly opposite of examples of the revolutionary "independent institutions of the oppressed." Examples include nuns giving gender advice, newspaper columnists giving persynal advice, wimmin writers in magazines like Cosmopolitan and state-funded domestic violence and rape crisis center employees.

While individual gender bureaucrats may say something intelligent from time to time, just as a minority of labor bureaucrats might oppose the Iraq Wars, on the whole, their very positions tie them to the patriarchy. Their political value to the patriarchy stems from the fact that gender bureaucrats are not usually exactly patriarchs themselves. They find ways to address the concerns of the gender aristocracy while also spouting patriarchal ideology.

Gender aristocracy--analogous to the "labor aristocracy," the gender aristocracy is most apt to describe people of female biology who nonetheless have a social role of gender oppressor that is neither a typical father-type role nor a leadership role usually occupied by gender bureaucrats. A perfect example is the female officers and troops sexually abusing Iraqi men in prison. The gender aristocrat may have no children herself and she has female biology, but nonetheless she is an important prop of the patriarchy.

In the majority-exploiter countries, it is MIM's line that the female biology adults are generally oppressors, gender aristocracy or higher. To know the impulse of feminist revolution, one must not take up the cause of the Lynndie Englands and their "liberation," but have faith in the global struggle of gender-oppressed people.