I’m not sure the point of nor the possible helpfulness (for anyone) of telling men that they are innately bad?

I mean, it really doesn’t matter that much to me. But I am atypical. I do the right thing even if the entire world tells me I shouldn’t.

Mostly, though, among typical people it will just drive men (and some women) away from the feminist movement and eliminate needed allies.

Some men involved in the feminist movement are terrible? OMG, some people are human, and there are bad ones everywhere? No, really? Get out!

Too much of too many movements is about maintaining tribal purity. I don’t care a whit about that.

And this part is just absurd.

But even if Clymer and Schwyzer somehow published and promoted nothing but Sensitive, Correct, Good Takes (a feat that would be almost magical for anyone working on a contemporary online-publishing schedule), they’d still be taking up space that a woman might have otherwise occupied.

Life isn’t a zero sum game. This is extremely fallacious logic. When I start a blog, it doesn’t knock someone off the internet. When I open a Twitter account, it doesn’t destroy someone else’s.

There’s no way to win in this – not for women, and not for men: if you say you are a male feminist and/or ally, you are automatically now Hugo Schwyzer, just trying to get laid (even though for 99.999% of men that does not work) and a sociopath, or if you declare yourself not a feminist you are also bad.

As I said, no way to win.

But as I also said, I don’t care, other than the movement is hurting itself. I will still help women succeed and prosper however I can, and to fight for an equitable society.

It’s just that the views of people like Kat Stoeffel are hurting that, and not in any way helping.