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Justice for Men & Boys 
Though I agree with the thesis that feminism is a form of “affluenza”. It is very evident today in the very notion of a “post industrial economy” the invisibility of the men who made and still make our society. For we are still dependent on vast industries to produce this complex and affluent society, its just that practically all the industry has gone China, India etc. where the men are totally invisible to our comfortable classes. Not that those here are that visible either. But in the days of Trafford Park, Port of Manchester and a parade of Steelworks, mines and chemical refineries. As I grew up you could not miss if you tried what men did. Now all “gone with the wind” replaced by a truly OTT shopping mall, distribution warehouses, “media city” and serried ranks of pricey apartment buildings. Perhaps easy to believe its all done by elves and a magic money tree. Indeed because its all so busy the “high viz” wearing men maintaining and repairing tend to work at night.
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One of the things “airbrushed ” out of feminist history is the role of Mr. Pankhurst, buried in a cemetery local to me. The “Red Doctor” ,though he was in fact a Barrister, was prominent locally and nationally and actually was one of the authors of feminist legislation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Pankhurst_(politician)
He was 24 years older than his youthful bride Emmaline, who simply carried on his “work” after his sudden death. Feminists also ignore Emmaline’s decidedly “conservative” nature (unlike her radical husband) being reluctant to extend the vote to lower class women, and enthusiast for the Empire and WW1 and dead against women moving into difficult and dangerous occupations (a supporter of the “white feather movement to shame young men into joining up). At the time of her death she was a Tory candidate for an up coming general election. The “Red Doctor” so named for his socialism took on the ideas of Marx and Engels, the latter in particular believed their had been an pre historic “matriarchy” all over the world which had been usurped by “patriarchy”. Engels writings on feminism are very clearly the genesis of the socialist/communist brand of feminism seen in the UK and all over Europe. There is much history about the Pankhursts and Engels here (Manchester England) which is part of the reason I’m interested. But I find Americans miss the deep ideological roots of feminism in Marxism, which is often much more obvious here and in Europe where Communist and Socialist ideology is far more widespread and deeply embedded in Universities.
It is also ironic on many levels that “feminism” is in fact far more a creation of men. A read of Engel’s “The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State” 1884. Reveals all of the current feminist agenda with the exception of the idea you can actually change sex.
My point being that at least in the UK and Europe feminism is woven into the DNA of left leaning political movements.
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