If women/ feminists fought also for men's right to be at home/ be allowed
to cry/ take care of children/ to be weak, sensitive emotional. It would
help woman to get a stronger position in society. If men had these rights,
then we could begin to talk about equal rights for all.
Good approach!
Yes, I think this is the right way. We saw the development of Emanzipation - it started just from a feminie perspective where women were fighting for their rights from the perpective of being victims of male pressure and dominance. Nowadays, this perspective shifted significantly to focusing both gender - male, female and everything that is potentially in between. Men should also discuss their role in society as well as female, transgender, intersex, and all the potential genders that yet have to be invented. It is not a "woman's science" but we are dealing with a gender perspective that puts all different gender into question. I think that men in our society have a more and more difficult role because there are so many expectations connected to their role. On the other hand, women's roles are changing a lot and there is more space to design an own "being female". I guess it woun't take long until men will have to put their own understanding into question and define it anew - what it means to be "man" for them personally.
THE role
While not having delved particularly deeply into gender research issues so far, at least I got the impression that a late descendent of the original sin(s) is to ask for, or to stipulate, THE role for either THE men of THE women. Biological sexes may be predominantly either/or - but already if you consider heterosexually oriented post-menopausal biological females or, say, post-andropausal biological males, or infertiles of any of the biological sexes, and all living with and among us: isn't there really much more of social functional opportunities than just implications of transposing biological human sexes (as natural-science-based or religiously-stipulated, respectively, but in any case communicatively negotiated construct) into the societal playground?! I mean: that Adam end Eve with just the two of them may not have had more than one role scheme idea would not necessitate all of us to stay like this. And what makes a boy becoming a man (or sort of), or a girl becoming a woman (again sort of)... I would suggest to just start with looking at early childhood parental or teacher(esse)s' interventions (but better keep off pointing fingers now). Individuums always (need to) become socialised - and need (to embrace) opportunities for 'keeping becoming' (there was an earlier Klaus Krippendorff paper on communication metaphors and regarding 'subjects' vs 'becomings' vs 'autopoets' - if I remember right...).
I completely agree that
I completely agree that there can be no liberation unless gender expression is free for all and supported by all.