Whilst the objective of making men more sympathetic to the notion of feminist values is, in my opinion, not only desirable but imperative the reality is that it is not likely to be achieved as a short-term objective. Human nature is such that it will only be adopted by a substantial number of males over a protracted period of time. Personally, I have come across a lot of men who have paid lip-service to the concept of gender equality when in a social environment where it was the most appropriate response but, their subsequent words and actions have revealed an ingrained male gender-biased stance. This is not a case of trying to attribute blame; these men have, through no fault of their own, been brought up as members of a society where male values have always had a higher status. For them to begin to change their position regarding gender equality en-mass it would not only need education in the merits of the subject but also recognition that for them to each acknowledge this potential for a realignment of gender roles, as a member of their male peer group, would no longer be seen as being akin to an act of treason against all men. Men have, notionally, been 'in charge' of society for millennia, they are the gender who have determined the rules that life's game has always been played by; why would they willingly accept a reversal of the rules of the game and, at the same time, hand the ball over to the other side?
For a true change in the nature of men, and thus the interrelationship between men and women, the reality is that it may well take generations and a sense of determination amongst the would-be revolutionaries – thus this time-frame would make them, perhaps, not revolutionaries but more like 'evolutionaries' . Not the sort of time-line that most feminists would, ideally, find acceptable. At an evolutionary level though, a change of relative values between the genders within a generation or two would, nonetheless, indicate a meteorically fast timetable for the re-ordering of society .
I have spent very many years motivated by, and researching into, gender equality and have come to the conclusion that there is no quick fix. When it comes to such radical change as global gender equality, revolution will not work; indeed, it is more likely to cause a form of civil war between the genders – but, some form of a more rapid mode of the evolution process could be applied to our gender roles and may well be the way to resolve the situation, the way to find a long term solution.
Exactly how this permanent re-ordering of social and gender-biased roles might be best achieved is another very interesting, complex and potentially controversial subject as is whether society as a whole could, or should, find the motivation to prioritise feminism above all else.