Men's Group

and philosophical systems are so muddled these days given their actual historical antecedents that it is difficult to properly discuss what it is they hope to convey.

Academic Feminism is at the same time dialectic like Hegel's philosophy, egalitarianism yet revolutionary like Marxism, and post-modern in that it does seem to deconstruct with deep probing insight yet rarely offers meaningful solutions. As a psychologist, what I end up seeing is hurt, abuse, and anger (while entirely justified in almost every instance) being expressed as system of rage and unconscious revenge. If I was raped by a bad man and there are other bad men that rape, then therefore all men somehow are involved in rape whether as active participants or as passive beneficiaries of a 'rape culture' is one such example. That is both a logical and an empirical failure of thinking and reality. And it is an emotional & psychological truth that must be healed for each individual woman that experienced such a tragic reality.

I always separate Marx from Hegel who preceded him. You are quite correct that for Marx, change is revolutionary. For Hegel, however, it was definitely evolutionary, and quite dependent upon the unfolding of Spirit (i.e. God). So my example was not Marxist but Hegelian. Change often becomes permanent when it is more evolutionary than revolutionary. Revolutions almost always lead to enantiodromia's. The conscious mind seeks a resolution to a past hurt. The fear, hurt, and anger are not fully dealt with and fester in the unconscious mind. The end result is often the abuser becomes the abused, the damaged becoming the damaging, etc. Radicals and extremists of any 'ism' share this frightening trait in common.

I hope you will note that I purposefully capitalize Feminism to distinguish the academic study and philosophy from the actual real-world reality of evolutionary creation of social and financial equality while recognizing fundamental differences between male & female. I firmly support equality without being a Feminist.