Do feminists seek gender equality or role reversal?
It just seems like some want to destroy the very idea of masculinity and manhood. On the other hand I know historically women have held fewer rights and privileges than men.
Is it the fault of men feminism has failed or has it simply failed on its own merits?
It failed because its premise, that women are equal to men, is not factually true. Once you start with a factually untrue premise, this then feeds through to invalidate the logic and ethics based on that premise. In a word, it's false. Being that it's false, feminism has not been, and is not about gender equality. It's about female privilege. It's about using the State to threaten people with imprisonment if they won't pretend that men and women are the same, so as to unequally enefit women at men's expense. The effect of treating men and women the same, when women *in fact* unequally bear the costs of reproduction, is to subsidise women. It is to take money, and effort, and wealth, and work, from men and give it to women, as a privilege of pet political favourites. And this wealth is taken by aggressive force and threats - the law. To ask whether feminism failed because of the fault of men implies that a) feminism is true and desirable in the first place - but we have just seen that it is factually, logically and ethically false- that's why no-one can defend any tenet of feminism without immediately falling into self-contradicdtion, which we have seen in here over and over and over again; and b) that it is a matter of fault if it doesn't work, whereas if something that is false fails because it is false, that is no-one's fault except those who put forward what is false. There is nothing "meritorious" about threatening to imprison people for not pretending that women are the same as men. And in the final analysis, that's all that feminism is, and all it has ever been. Feminism is false from top to bottom, there is nothing meritorious about it. It is just a sexist attempt to obtain the benefits for women of both patriarchy and feminism, with men to have the downsides, costs, and risks of both - and all backed by force and threats. All their talk of "equality" simply translates, in truth, to "female privilege" because men and women are not factually equal, and any attempt to treat them so is nothing but sexist privilege favouring women.