"You need to defend the assertion that not ordaining women to the priesthood somehow makes the Church patriarchal."

According to my Merriam-Webster Dictionary, "Patriarchy" means "social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan or family, the legal dependence of wives and children, and the reckoning of descent and inheritance in the male line; broadly :  control by men of a disproportionately large share of power". Given that positions of authority in the Church are limited to the ordained, obviously the institutional Catholic Church fits that definition.  Please do not do your typical traditionalist bending words out of all recognition so as to pretend what is real is not real.

There is a reason women are not ordained. That reason is sexism of the men who say women cannot be ordained. That, sir, is a fact. Just because you conservative traditionalists are insecure with women being treated equally with men. You are the ones who are insecure, not us.