Hw 22: Patriarchy then and now

One of the main themes in chapter two of Virginia Woolfs "A Room of One's Own," is patriarchy. Patriarchy is a social system where the male of the family is in charge over the women and children.Woolf discusses the issues that have been bothering her about her visit to the two colleges that involved patriarchy. There were many questions that she asked herself such as "Why do women drink water and men wine? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor?-a thousand questions at once suggested themselves"(Woolf 25). Woolf proves that England is a patriarchy with all of the questions about how men dominate over women that she continues to ask herself. Even when she goes to look up book "M" in the library of the museum, and there are no books written about males. All of these things that Woolf is questioning over and over shows the male dominance of the time. She stresses this fact when she states, " The most transient visitor to this planet, I thought, who picked up this paper could not fail to be aware, even from the scattered testimony, that England is under rule of patriarchy"(Woolf 33).
When I looked on the front cover of "The Boston Globe" the article was about the win of the Boston Red Sox. This shows that today in the US there is still some sense of patriarchy, because the sports these days are usually only popular if men are the ones participating in them.