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I would complain, but I have no idea what coercive heteronormative Patriarchy is meant to mean

That's a pity. Today I was going to move on to Race Privilege, Gender Wage Gap and Gender Queer Non-binary issues.

I was being a bit redundant there since the heteronormative Patriarchy is, by definition, coercive. Hope that's cleared it up for you. Funny thing just happened: I was looking for an example so I googled "heteronormative patriarchy" and it said "do you mean white heteronormative patriarchy?" You know, I guess I do mean that. Here goes: You know how, if you are a white straight male you always get every job you ever apply for and, if you only ask for $1 million/year, they'll say "No, no, you're a man so we'll give you $2 million!" That's Patriarchy at work. Earlier I mentioned a hypothetical Northern dole ####, who happens to be male, hetero and white, let's call him Keef Mersey. Let's say Keef, who dropped out of high school at 14 because it was interrupting his drinking schedule, decides now, at 20, that he wants to be an engineer. He just rings a major construction company and tells them to get rid of a female engineer, or a brown- or black or Chinese engineer or a gay engineer so they can give him the job. The company will immediately do it because they recognise his white, male, hetero privilege. Because Patriarchy. Another advantage Keef has is that he can rape and murder women at will and he will never be charged or convicted of anything. In fact, since the victims were women, the cops won't even investigate and will just chalk it up to rough sex followed by suicide. With his new job, Keef can get married and keep his wife chained to the kitchen sink. He's allowed to beat her, starve her and rape her whenever he feels like it. When he's sick of her, he can divorce her and the judge will give him everything and tell the woman to get on her bike and just be grateful she's lived this long. Because Patriarchy. By now, at the age of 25, Keef is eligible to be promoted to CEO of a Fortune 500 company despite having no relevant qualifications and never bothering to turn up to his previous job, because white, heteronormative patriarchy demands that every white male - except gays - has a natural right to be rich, lazy, stupid and powerful. Now you might think, "That's BS!!!" but you'd be wrong. You would be demonstrating that you are a mysoginistic, wife-beating, privileged, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic tool of the Patriarchy, using your privilege to continue the oppression of .... well, just everybody except white men. You are probably also a Nazi. I think that covers most of it.

People who repeatedly sniff/snook up in public but don't blow their nose.

Said the TRL grim reaper. Gee, thanks.