Who Should (And Shouldn't) Be Leaders/Members of Social Movements

[MellowDem]

3. Nope

If a social movement is about gender equality, then it is not a women's movement. Simple as that.

I'm not defining the women's movement, because a women's movement is about women's equality or women alone, not about men too.

I'm all for women controlling their own advocacy groups. The movement for gender equality is not a women's advocacy group though.

It seems you want to define "gender" to mean "women only". Funny how you project that onto me.

I didn't define feminism here, there is no one definition is why. So I just laid out what the goals of a social movement are. If the goal is only women's equality, then it's a women's advocacy group, plan and simply. If it's gender equality, then it's a society-wide movement, not limited to one group.

If men don't have any leadership or members, then yes, the movement will be all about women, and end up being just another advocacy group based on identity rather than a social movement. If that's what you want, go for it. There are already men who want similar groups of all men. I guess we'll see how effective these groups are at advocating for their respective genders rather than society as a whole.