I was laughing also, I’ve seen so many of those over the years, I think it’s because you never hear the word patriarch any longer and “patriarchy” is a “bad word”.
They hear about the queen of England as the matriarch and thinks it means leader.
That is also possible. People are just getting more dumb as time goes on and at least in the USA the school system is complete shit if you are not in a expensive private school (and even then it might still be shit).
The first time I saw it was on a cancer forum. I’d been there for years because of my dad and someone’s father passed away and did a big eulogy when their loved one passed like usual.
But he used matriarch nobody had ever used either term before.
I politely pm’d him and said his father was the patriarch, not the matriarch of the family and he got all bent out of shape taking about the queen is a leader and us the matriarch which means ruler etc.
So I politely pm’d him the definitions of both and he never replied and left it.
After that I just figure people are retards when I see that and don’t bother trying to fix stupid.
Sadly, you cannot fix stupid o.0 Someone like that chooses to remain ignorant.
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