This statement clearly puts words to feelings that all cis-males feel in life.
Society does not prefer to see men band together because it becomes a threat to that society.
Society is built upon traditions as masculinity for what it is worth hasn't evolved since the 19th century.
So if we believe words matter, one could swap out words like "change" for "evolve". Swap out fighting the patriarchy for stopping misandry (men are the #1 abusers of this not women)
Stop pretending "nice" is good when "authentic" is the way.
My trek through this was to understand that trying to use the tools of traditional masculinity and society in my damaged soul, was through looking at the problem from a different perspective of using feminism (I am a feminist) and looking at gender and sexuality through a transgender view.
I have a therapist to thank for that last angle, where she stated, I want you to take you desire for the feminine and focus on transgender women.
Then the light switch came on.
As for the last thing, remember there is no consent with forced consent. Requiring people to acknowledge their privilege will always put up the stoic barriers in men and reduce the required vulnerability needed to process the darkness within.
The hard part if we use traditional markers of biology with gender is the fact that there is no marker to denote when a boy becomes a man.
Women have periods to denote that threshold, and the woman-box of reproduction is used for better or worse to define what is a woman.
You had to fight through that madness, just as you jumped through the woman box to land in the man box and you are saying WTF.
Some folks will be repulsed but then it shows where they are at in the evolution state of life.
When I as cis-male, can look at another person who is trans woman and say wow she loves me, or a trans man and say wow he loves, and I love them because they love the "me" in my masculinity and soul.
One then understands the power and beauty of love that is layered through humanity. Those that don't only love the shell and the structure that society imposes on those that can't scratch deeper then the skin.
It is perverse enough that you have something that can heal and be good for people (religion) be warped in ways to force consent and harm people at so many levels.
So lastly ... misandry is not something that is heavily imposed on men by women, but it is imposed daily by men on men. Women in return actually can be highly misogynistic to themselves, and as such, empower the toxic cultures of masculinity/femininity in each of the gender pools.
The thing to freeing oneself is realizing when forced structures are dumped on people, up is down and you have to look outside of the box to be free.
