What happens when two seemingly disparate phenomena, children’s games and AI, follow the same patriarchal script? 

This essay examines the rooted misogyny of left ideologies and the assumption that the left is progressive on gender. Although Marx and Engels only prioritised class as the source of social inequality, gender-based oppression existed before class and has not been satisfactorily tackled by most leftist movements. The essay compares early leftists' misogynistic arguments, like Proudhon, with feminist critique by intellectuals like Emma Goldman and Anuradha Gandhy.