I am trying to teach people about feminism, and I don’t want everyone to come out of it feminists. Or, I do, at least in the long run, but I don’t want people to sign up to my explanation of feminism simply because I’m a woman, and because we ought to defer to women on issues of feminism. Why? Because feminism isn’t only a women’s issue. Yes, it suffers for the (perhaps unfortunate) name that implies a centrality of the experience of women, but the destruction of the patriarchy is something that will improve the entire human condition, not just the women’s half. As such, it’s a movement that needs not just the support of men, but the active engagement of men with its structure. Men need to come not just to Reclaim the Night marches, they need to be criticising fucked-up strategies promoted by feminist groups, not just letting it pass them by because women are inherently more correct about feminist strategy than men.
— We Should Not All Be Feminists by Frances Wright
