In the first chapter of the Gender Knot by Allan Johnson, the author describes the patriarchal elements in our society as a degree that upgrades male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, male cantered, and obsessed with control. Even though patriarchy is a type of society in which both men and women participate in, according to the author. First, Johnson defines male dominance as a position of authority and power that creates differences in power between the two genders. As a result, men claim more tittles, income, and wealth than women. Most of all, male dominance developed the ideology that men are superior by controlling the content of our cultural objects such as television shows, magazines, and internet which unfortunately
