Patriarchy is alive and well everywhere and so is misogyny. It's most disturbing to find it among women who should know better but for some the need to identify with power is greater than the need to be honest with themselves. Feminism continues to remain necessary and relevant.
In fact, because of my pariah status as an ex "Rhodesian" I received no support from: feminists, self-proclaimed liberals OR conservatives. What bemused me is that all of these adopted an extreme authoritarian and patriarchal perspective to ward me off, before going back to whatever-it-was-they-were-pretending-to-be.
+S. F. I have detected among those I had relied on one fragile narcissist, one borderline and one whose status may have been vulnerable too (although I doubt it), who played politics.