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Asehpe, one of the comments in your post reminded me that people love to find a scapegoat as a convenient way to shift blame to someone/something else other than themselves, and feminism is a very convenient scapegoat when it comes to any issues men have with women.
Cracked up at the word "immanentize"! Shades of Spinoza.
The following is OT, for you only:
BTW, no, I never read Delany's Hogg, or any of the other fiction he wrote after 1993 (can't even find a copy of The Man Man) and the only non-fiction work of his I read was Silent Interviews. So it wasn't perfectly accurate of me to say I've read everything he's ever written. Dhalgren and the Neveryon series were my faves, they both depict the ways in which sexuality/gender/class/economics/politics/power/language can intersect, and how these play out in conflicts between the individual and the group (or the state), and how these areas are themselves influenced by such conflicts between individuals and the group/state. He is smart, witty, revolutionary, and his work is entertaining yet deeply intellectual, multi-layered and engaging - a "perfect storm" for brilliant fiction, IMHO. You might also enjoy Joanna Russ, if you like Delany.
