Yes Andrew we agree on this.
I was thinking again today about how much men love to work in teams within the framework of patriarchal institutions. I mean for example, The Army , The Church, charismatic political movements,(Fascism, Soviet communism) religion, sports..
But when it comes to this movement, there is no such impetus. I don't think it is hyperbole to say that this movement, (beyond facilitating the essential emancipation of class Woman from patriarchy) stands to be the greatest cultural political and sociological change humanity has ever known. So why do even the few males that profess to support it and be allies to it, not do as we do within patriarchal groups which require determination, zeal, planning and comradeship? is it because we are too timid, not knowing our place within the movement?
No. I don't think so. because many of us have read many feminist books have had interaction with feminist women and as part of the oppressor class, we are better situated to help our sisters grab the keys to the jailhouse, and we can do this for two reasons, i) we have more agency and 2) as those who were raised to be wardens, we may know as well, or even better than Women, where those keys are.
We know what is needed but we don't do it. I believe that (I am repeating myself I know), In communicating with one another and then acting in unison, as profeminist males we can use our agency as males to great use. This of course with the guidance of Women within the movement. I hate to say this, but either I am proposing this too early in the history of radical feminism, or simply, the males in the movement do not view their involvement with the commitment required to be a *real* ally. I think that it is the latter. And I also think that maybe on a subconscious level, males are really *not* looking at this as what it what it can be and what Women who lead the radical feminist movement insist that it be:
(Again I apologize for the repetition),
"“Feminism is a movement for the liberation of women which, because women’s oppression is deeply embedded in everything must necessarily, then be a movement for the transformation of the whole society "~Charlotte Bunch
These are not idle words, it is a purposeful statement.And a most important one.
That males who profess to be pro-feminists do not see
that the lack of purposeful acting on their/our part is antifeminist is very intriguing .