In woke thinking, Western societies are androcentric patriarchies. Androcentrism (male-centredness) refers to a worldview in which the man is understood as the standard and norm.328 Patriarchy is defined as “a system of social relations, values, norms, and patterns of behaviour that are predominantly shaped by men and favour a privileged position for men.” 329
From a woke perspective, gender discrimination functions similarly to racist discrimination (androcentrism here corresponds to whiteness). At the centre of the fight against patriarchy is so-called “gender mainstreaming”, i.e. the politically enforced equality through the levelling of gender differences.330 The axiomatic view of justice, in which inequality is established as proof of injustice, is one of the foundations of intersectional feminism.
In recent years, through the influence of identity-political gender studies, patriarchy has been theorised as a system that marginalises a so-called FINTA* community. FINTA* (women, intersex, non-binary, trans, and agender persons) is defined as a non-male collection of identities that are affected in different ways by patriarchal oppression. Patriarchy is understood as a system in favour of cis-normative men, in which the intersectional form of oppression must be taken into account (see Allyship and TERF). Anyone identified as FINTA who contradicts queer-feminist and anti-patriarchal ideas suffers from a form of false consciousness.