Thank you, Jamie Manson, for your courage to speak hard truth which our post-Trent Roman Catholic brothers and sisters cannot hear.  Thank you for speaking hard truth ABOUT the Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.  It IS patriarchal and it alone gets to define the rules of its expression of Catholicism.

Vatican II, however, pointed the Church in another direction.  Only a Post-Vatican II Rite/Church can get beyond the patriarchal paradigm.  If we think that women deacons or women priests will change that RC paradigm, we are sadly deluding ourselves.

Roman Church Catholicism IS patriarchal and it alone gets to define the rules of its expression of Catholicism.  Likewise, shouldn't a Vatican II Church Catholicism in union with Rome get to define the rules of its expression of Catholicism...as do the the 23 other Catholic Rites in union with Rome? 

You might want to visit https://RiteBeyondRome.com