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- Individual heterosexual women came to the feminist movement from relationships where men were cruel, unkind, violent, unfaithful. Many of these men were radical thinkers who participated in movements for social justice, speaking out on behalf of the workers, the poor, speaking out on racial justice.
- As the movement progressed, as feminist thinking advanced, enlightened feminist activists saw that men were not the problem, that the problem was patriarchy, sexism, and male domination.
 - It was difficult to face the reality that the problem did not just lie with men. Facing that reality required more complex theorizing; it required acknowledging the role women paly in maintaining and perpetuating sexism.
- It became evident that even if individual men divested of patriarchal privilege the system of patriarchy, sexism, and male domination would still remain intact, and women would still be exploited and/or oppressed.
- Conservative mass media constantly represented feminist women as man-haters.
  - Without changing our fierce critique of male domination feminist politics expanded to include the recognition that patriarchy stripped men of certain rights, imposing on them a sexist masculine identity.
- Anti-feminist men have always had a strong public voice. The men who feared and hated feminist thinking and feminist activists were quick to marshal their collective forces and attack the movement.
  - From the onset of the movement there was a small group of men who recognized that feminist movement was as valid a movement for social justice as all the other radical movements in our nations history that men had supported.
- Those individual activists who called on all women to reject men refused to look at either the caring bonds women shared with men or the economic and emotional ties that bind women and men who are sexist.
- Cultures of domination attack self-esteem, replacing it with a notion that we derive our sense of being from dominion over another.
  - Patriarchal masculinity teaches men that their sense of slef and identity, their reason of being, resides in their capacity to dominate others.
  - To change this males must critique and challenge male domination of the planet, of less powerful men, of women and children.
- We do know that patriarchal masculinity encourages men to be pathologically narcissistic, infantile, and psychologically dependent on the privileges that they receive simply for having been bom male.
  - Many men feel that their lives are being threatened if these privileges are taken aways, as they have structured no meaningful core identity.
- A wise and loving feminist politics can provide the only foundation to save the lives of male children. Patriarchy will not heal them.
- Many men are anguished because they do not engage the liberating critiques that could enable them to face these promises were rooted in injustice and domination and even when fulfilled have never led men to glory.
- A feminist vision which embraces feminist masculinity, which loves boys and men and demands on their behalf every right that we desire for girls and women, can renew male.