Dick Mullin lost his documents

And when pressed on that matter by women, most men will dig in their heels and defend the regime, either directly or through inaction. However revolutionary they may be on other subjects, they'll happily embrace the most intense authoritarianism, if it enables them to continue in the regime.

And I'm saying that most of those revolutionary men have enormous, patriarchy-shaped holes in their theory and practice. "Toxic" masculinity is really better understood as just regular masculinity, the societal default version that the great majority of men try to fit into and socially enforce.

Frankly most of them would rather die

Enforcing it in themselves and each other, because they benefit from a social arrangement that leaves them on top. If they haven't considered it, that's also on them, because the theory and arguments are all there for them to see. But that would require men to consider the opinions of women, and/

Men absolutely do choose to participate in Masculinity as a social regime. For all men's (and their apologists') protestations about it being natural, that Masculinity requires constant, violent enforcement that marks it as artifical and changeable. But they choose not to change, and to continue/

I would compare it to ACAB. Not every cop is a violent, racist thug, but they all know and help cover for the many racist thugs who work alongside them. They continue to work in and benefit from a field and social position that creates and encourages racist brutality. They collaborate by inaction

They're fascists because they benefit from fascism, because it has sold itself to them as, if not desirable, then the best option available to them. And since they don't see women as people, they can't easily see beyond that narrow self interest or care to act against it.

Among so many men recently. Not all of them are perpetrating these acts, but all of them are aware of these acts, and benefiting directly or indirectly from patriarchy, and almost none are doing anything material to combat it. Many are actively supporting it. That has to be reckoned with.

Able, certainly. Willing, though, that's the sticking point, and I think the fact that men as a demographic skew significantly to the right of women on basically every issue is something worth considering, especially in light of the massive uptick in overtly patriarchal and misogynistic sentiments/

Fascism is, and has always been, fundamentally a male-supremacist project. That patriarchal trend cuts across every flavor and variant of fascism, from Nazism to falangism to groypers and everything in-between, it's all about and for men.

Look at how men get about things like women in positions of authority, about abortion rights, about the birthrate (where the implied threat of state-sanctioned mass rape is never far from the surface), about consent in general, etc.

And I should add that every single trans woman I know, myself included, has been sexually assaulted at least twice by men since coming out.

Performative misogynistic violence like what we just saw in Minneapolis is the norm for them. And frankly misogynistic violence is not exactly alien to non-fascist men, not when every woman alive has either been sexually assaulted herself, or else personally knows multiple other women who have.

Fascism fucking loves patriarchy, and the feeling is plainly mutual, insofar as there even is a distinction to be made. Individual women may be traitors, but masculinity as a regime is what fascism is all about, and always has been. It sells itself to men, it imposes itself on women

Regime propaganda