Re: DRL, further analysis needed on your part (a tad long)
Sorry I have to be short here, but this topic will be going on for some time so we'll get to it later.
Fundamental principle - masculine and feminine are opposed principles, like subject and object, light and dark, etc. Thus, a strict rule by tyrannical men may in fact be extremely feminine in nature. The worlds of Orwell's 1984 or Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 are extremely feminine societies, in which every aspect of life is done for (so-called) protection of the status quo, and all outward exploration has ended.
The radical right is essentially feminine in nature - all collectives are feminine. A strictly masculine society would be something like the Mongols.
Thus your conditions:
1). to insure the continuence of institutionalized patriarchy
2). to keep power, money, and influence in the hands of a few males
are coming from a false premise - in fact these are ultra-negative manifestations of a disinherited masculinity. The radical feminist reaction is an ultra-negative manifestation of a disinherited femininity. The root problem is that everyone is operating in a skewed social environment in which forced collectives have displaced mutual cooperation - in abstract terms, the Actual Masculine has been individually disinherited by men, and so is projected on the collective as a false macho and bravado. The result of this projection is that the collective actually behaves as a rampant unconscious negatively expressed feminine, what I call the Unrestricted Feminine. Our society is as far from patriarchic as could be imagined - indeed there are no remaining patriarchic societies of any size, and certainly not in the Western world. A good example of an actual patriarchic society would be the Plains Indian horse cultures. To show how crazily inverted it is, the Germans actually call their unconscious negative feminine the "Fatherland" - at least the Russians, the French and the Americans are sane enough to have Mother Russia and Miss Liberty as icons.
I wish I could go on more now but I'll get to your other points. I wanted to establish the basis of my point and mind you I am stilll working it out. The main result will be an attempt to replace deterministic social thought by complementarity, in accordance with how the world really works.
