I am indeed amazed by Mr. Amazing Atheist. In the linked video, he makes a number of astonishing proclamations. Let's look at a few:
According to the United Nations, overall, women do 66 percent of the world's work and for it receive 10 percent of its income and but 1 percent of its property. But no, there's definitely nothing patriarchal about such a condition. What was I thinking? Women are all just a bunch of lazy mooches who've only experienced inequality because we refuse to do any work.
In reality of course, women do plenty of work. Way more than men, in fact. Women just don't get paid for the vast majority of the work they do (at least when you look at the overall shape of world). Why don't they get paid most of the time? Because the work they do is held in lower esteem than "men's work". It's considered less valuable. And, accordingly, women themselves are considered less valuable. Fortunately, in the declining current First World, the exodus of the manufacturing base to more Third World countries (largely the product of completed development) is having the effect of devaluing "men's work" and elevating "women's work" in stature. In contemporary America, women still mostly do the same things they've done for tens of thousands of years: child care, house work, communications-oriented work, etc. ...with the difference that now they're actually getting paid most of the time. It might indeed be slowly flipping the gender relations of society. You can see, for example, that, statistically speaking, in most of the major metropolitan areas of the U.S., women's incomes are already higher than men's. The major metropolitan areas tend to lead the national trend. One other result is that there are now more girls being born than boys in many First World countries because they're believed to be the sex with an economic future. But the overall worldwide picture is still quite clear: women are doing the vast majority of the world's work and receiving almost none of its wealth in compensation. That is patriarchy. And America too is still essentially patriarchal. You can tell by the fact that American women still receive only 77% the incomes of American men and by the sex distribution at the top of the social ladder: only 10 of the 100 richest Americans are female.
Nope, they're not really. Not essentially. Ancient matriarchal societies broadly featured the same core gender roles that are so stereotypical. The essential thing was, and is, the esteem in which the work women do was and is held. I'm kind of in the Red Stockings camp of feminist thinking, accordingly. I don't believe that abolishing traditional gender roles is really the key to abolishing patriarchy. It's not essentially women who need to change, it's men. Society needs to learn to value women as they are rather than on the precondition that they go into "men's work", have sex on men's terms, etc.
I could go on but don't really feel there's a compelling reason to. This guy clearly has no idea what he's talking about.