I came across this piece of graffiti while I was walking through an affluent part of Pune. I passed by this wall, and I couldn't help but think about the women who decided to create it.

Do these women truly understand what they demand? Or have they merely found a new scapegoat in the old "patriarchy" upon which to foist their resentments and discontents?

As Rene Girard explains, "Human society is founded upon violence. When mimetic desires and rivalries grow too strong amongst a community, threatening chaos, one is selected as the "scapegoat" - blamed for all ills and sacrificed to restore order. Over time, this evolved from actual human sacrifice to symbolic animal sacrifice in religion."

But Christianity revealed the inherent flaw - the scapegoat is innocent. Once this is seen, the mechanism can no longer be sustained. Violence finds no release and tensions mount higher than ever. I see this process now reaching its climax in modernity.

Bereft of finding their scapegoats through religion, people search desperately for new targets on which to project their frustrations. Foucault's diagnostics ring true - we diagnose deviancy in ever more elaborate and changing forms, in an attempt to contain and expel what we loathe most - our own shortcomings.

When we peel back the motivations for these feminists and their call for "matriarchy", we find the all-too-familiar resentments that plague the human condition. I can understand their position, it is comforting to conjure a great oppressor in the "patriarchy".

Make no mistake, injustice toward women exists and progress remains to be made. But a changing of hands at the helm will not remedy what truly ails them - or humanity itself. For power corrupts all who grasp it.

Perhaps the new technologies hint at what comes next. As machines automate our brutish "work," we gain freedom from its shackles at last. No longer tethered to the drear realities of labour and survival, new avenues of play, art and self-cultivation may open.

Then man and woman alike can transcend these petty social assemblies and their resentments, to become who they truly are.