[derefr]

I guess I could parse the attitude of developers who don't "consider the user's needs in the design of a system" as patriarchy... but in the gender-neutral "parents telling children what's good for them" sense of the term, not the gender-politics one.

[sliverstorm]

Err... I don't think there is such thing as a gender-neutral patriarchy.

A patriarchy is not "a power system" or "a system of authority". It is a system in which males are in power.