Is male on male violence a feminist issue?

[Threedifferentones]

165. Why couldn't it be a feminist issue?

As a forewarning, after I read this quickly written post I realized it's kind of aggressive and that I am, as usual, in some ways verging on hyperbole. So please consider this food for thought and not an attempt at truth, as this is obviously a deep subject we could talk about forever.

Emma Goldman for instance thought of all forms of hierarchy, violence and domination as different parts of one evil whole.

I agree with her century-old views that people who fight against only one flavor of hierarchy and violence are making a big mistake. She admonished other white women to advocate for racial equality as well as gender, and thought black men should sympathize with how women are oppressed.

We ought to be against violence on the whole, not just violence of sort or against some particular group. IMO this is not just morally right, it's practical, because violent behaviors and violent personalities don't limit themselves to affecting just one group.

It has always seemed obvious to me that violence between males is directly related to violence against women. Through history many men have been forced to learn to live with violence in order to survive interactions with other males. Our culture's teach us (men) that violence is good, and then life often times proves that we must be violent if only to survive the violence of others.

When men interact with each other, there is often a hierarchy, a command structure, whether formal or not. And if a man will not fall in line with that structure, then the other males attack him. Why would we expect men who are violent with other men to behave differently around women?

What's truly ironic is that if violence amongst men does not stop, then violence against women in some sense actually fulfills the promise of feminism. After all, women should be equal to men. Men are attacking one another, and women can expect to be treated equally.