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Nice cherry-picking, but the author of this (meme?) was a tad over-enthusiastic, & in an attempt to bulk up his meagre list of exceptions included downright lies.

If you only look at successful suicides you can be fooled into thinking suicide is a men's issue, but 3x the number of women actually attempt suicide over men, so suicide has no place being on this list.

Women control 66% of the world's wealth

lol no, they don't. Where are you getting this from?

Women control 80 of all household spending

translation: mothers are given the job of what food & clothes are bought for the children, not because they want to, but because the "fathers" don't want to, so the mothers have to.

93% of all workplace deaths...

Well where else would you expect them to be dying? Meanwhile over 90% of female homicide victims are by male perpetrators. Men are more likely to die in the public sector, while women are more likely to be killed in the private sector. Prostitution is still the most dangerous job though, sex workers in general have the lowest mortality rate. Those jobs, as well as unpaid, private sector jobs clearly weren't included in your stat.

Systemic prejudice manifests itself through trends, not statistical outliers. The average man isn't homeless or doing a dangerous job, so when listing these as "evidence", that's just cherry picking, seeing as 95% of Fortune 500 CEOs are also men – which is what patriarchy is referring to. Homeless men don't contradict the definition of patriarchy.

If homelessness & suicides & dangerous jobs were any legitimate measure than even the most obvious patriarchies we all agree are patriarchies (like Saudi Barbaria) wouldn't qualify.