@synapsid I remember Jordan Peterson once echoed a similar sentiment, it's a gynocentric idea that has plagued conservative thought for some time: women tame men's sexuality and in so doing make it possible to build civilization. In reality it's literally the other way around - by constraining hypergamy men socialize women to be mothers instead of whores. And so men groomed women into wives and mothers, then expanded their families into civilizations. The problem is that for the past 100 or 200 years the social order has fallen further from White men's grasp, which has allowed the rise of feminism. To tradcucks like Jordan Peterson, it's only natural to assume that the wife held the real power in relationships like they do today.

In a healthy patriarchal society men have all the responsibility but they also have all the power. In a gynocentric society (which is always a patriarchal society in decay because women are incapable of building a civilization) men have all the responsibility and women have all the power. Jordan Peterson and other tradcucks just assume gynocentrism is the norm