Sure, there are a lot of useful idiots who are waging war against feminism under the banner of the MRM, without realising that a) their humanist beliefs are actually much more closely related to feminism than MRA ideology, and b) that they are doing the exact same thing as the overly dramatic, overly women-focused feminists they criticize so much, except with men instead of women. But they're just that. Useful idiots, with about as much hope to influence their party's line as the average USSR citizen. Means to an end.
http://www.avoiceformen.com/feminism/shut-the-fuck-up-or-ftsu/This article is particularly egregious. The author rejects the feminist (and therefore corrupt) concept of patriarchy as the source of all social ills, substituting it with the idea of a pervasive gynocentrism. What he doesn't seem to realise is that his "gynocentrism" is actually
fucking patriarchy with a new, woman-blaming name, and that his article is, for all intents and purposes, nothing more an inverted rad-fem rant with 800% more "what about the meeenz" whining.
Unlike "gynocentrism", the choice of "patriarchy" as a word to describe the social institution behind gender roles isn't based on who suffered most or who is to blame, two questions that have no objective answer (mine are "the destitute, as always" and "the natural selection of human cultures", by the way). It is based on which gender is given actual, systematic power over the other under this social institution. Fathers and husbands were the ones who customarily held absolute authority over their children and wives.
