It’s so cool now, and so easy, to bash the patriarchy. What with President Trump’s flaws, a United Kingdom election where women dominated, and all the stupid things men do on a daily basis, it’s far easier to wallop the patriarchal system than call out feminists for their own flaws, including my favorites: lack of perspective and complete and total gridlock of the movement. Not only is “the patriarchy” still an important part of society, it does as much for women and feminism as the movement itself does.

This last week, while Lena Dunham was exalting the feminist qualities of the pineapple in her newsletter — yes, you read that right. She wrote, “It is the pineapple that is still standing after the fast-moving periods of wokeness we have been going through of late” — a fourth woman was arrested in connection with genital mutilation of young women in Michigan.