No, you can't act that way or go into that profession because you're female. And all the other little insults that go along every day and which are hard to put your finger on. Feminism is a way of fighting that, while getting society and men and our whole culture to go beyond that. I'm so grateful to have three other men here. Being in feminism has changed my life.
Healthy growth is through and toward connection.
After a few years of experiencing growth and connection, there's a fork in the path. All the pressures in the culture demand that the little boy disconnect from his relationship with his mother to become a man. The culture says only in disconnection can you become a strong self that can grow. You just want men to become like women. If that, in this culture, is taken as feminization, we are in big trouble.