This article examines the consequences on women of having been reared to imbibe psychic structures that support and enact patriarchy and patriarchal ways of being. For girls, this involves still being schooled to care for, look out for, nurture, and provide for the needs of others. Women become especially alert to fragility and insecurity and—in trying to help others—they may unconsciously seek recognition for their own often unmet needs. Being raised with a feminized mind and body can incline women to feel uneasy about their own desires, their bodies, and their sexuality. Social movements instigate social and psychological change. With #MeToo, the unfinished work of Second Wave Feminism now enters mainstream public discourse. In addition, men’s complex relationship to mothers and internalized authority also affects their subjectivity, rendering them sometimes embattled, sometimes fighting for control, and sometimes experiencing fragility vis-à-vis women.