More generally, there is considerable diversity and disagreement over basic political questions, ways of working and a range of specific issues. These disagreements and conflicts are sometimes hidden, denied or trivialised at men's movement events. There is some truth in all these responses, but they should not thwart the respectful exploration of understandings and dialogue across difference. The first two however have substantial overlap, as you shall see in the following discussion. The core assumption of this strand is that the current, dominant model of manhood is oppressive to women, as well as limiting for men.
Society is seen as characterised by injustices and inequalities based on gender.
Men must take responsibility for their own sexist behaviours and attitudes and work to change those of men in general. Men and groups in the anti-sexist strand are sympathetic to various feminist understandings of society. However, he also identifies differences between these streams, which I also see in Australia. Both are pro-feminist, but they draw on different streams of feminism, liberal and radical. For Clatterbaugh, radical pro-feminist men give greater emphasis to the organisation of masculinity and men's lives as privileged over women's and as violent and aggressive.