I’ve known a lot of green/eco-warrior/hippy/lentil-weaver types and it’s always struck me that they tend to have very traditional family set-ups where the woman does all the childcare and is often sidelined financially - sometimes related to a kind of earth mother / attachment parenting concept where she must always be available for her kids, does extended BF, etc. I’m not judging those choices in themselves but they can tend to conflict with feminism in some situations, and attract men who want to be dominant and to excuse themselves from anything domestic while they go off and save the world.
Yup. I saw a lot of this in the late 70s when I was briefly involved in the anti-uranium/anti-nuclear movement. Men leading, often in a very sexist (and sometimes sexually exploitative) way.
And again in the Occupy movement - stories of rape and other kinds of sexual assault in the Occupy camps were pretty common. Again, leadership from hippy men with a strong line in virtue signalling.
As a child of the 70s, I was briefly enamoured of the hippy movement - it seemed so admirable in its aims - and well, the music! But when I came into contact with the reality - it was disillusioning. Men who thought that women's lib meant any woman was sexually available, and frigid/uptight if she resisted ...