Systematic ideological control

Most patriarchal theories that have any efficacy also effectively close the gaps around women to prevent their escape from the systematic ideology of patriarchy. Intensive ideological domination over women is achieved only when patriarchy also tweaks all opposing perspectives to make them look patriarchal, too. So it was that Freud effectively "closed the gap" around women by maintaining that they had really weak and flaky superegos at the same time as overly harsh and punitive superegos. The first condition unfits them for effective participation in society because they are allegedly not "strong" enough to co-operate with its mores. The second condition means that they are oversensitive to issues of morality and tend to blame themselves for no reason. So, once again, women are unfit for society. The means by which they might have escaped the circle of condemnation is closed by applying two opposing principles in the same way.