I listened to a radio talk show host opine that the United States has become a matriarchal society. I understand what he meant but he is wrong. The United States is neither a matriarchal or patriarchal society. It is what one would most precisely call a "pussy whipped" society.
A matriarchal society posits that lineage (children within male-female marriages) is managed through the female side of the family. In other words, family history, inheritance, and the joining of children to clan and community runs through the female line. Like a patriarchal society this implies that the primary concern of the society is the having of children within male-female marriages and the structure of families and their treasure.
The United States, like Westernized Europe, is as far from being concerned about having children as can be imagined. The thought that the US is "matriarchal" at the same time that having and raising children within a family has disappeared off of people's list of priorities is just laughable. A real matriarchal society would spit on the aborting self absorbed stripper pole installing "fully actualized" "career women with booty" that populate this "society" today. Likewise a real patriarchal society would spit on the pussy whipped men of this society, who do not care at all about having a normal family and raising children who are the light of their eyes and the pride of their lives. It was not so long ago that the gift of a child within a family to a husband and wife was the highest prize, a gift from God, that both the poorest and the richest people shared in their esteem.
So don't call this a matriarchal society; that is an insult to those societies who actually valued their children as their treasures. This is P. W. S. A.