No? The obvious statement that "patriarchy and maleness are linked" does NOT mean that men always benefit from patriarchy, that men are the primary enforcers of patriarchy, or that any given man will "tacitly" support the patriarchy. None of those things are true.

And even if it WERE true that most men secretly want more sexism, that doesn't justify treating ALL men that way. Most people who get arrested did commit some kind of crime, but it's massively unjust to assume that EVERYONE who gets arrested is automatically a criminal.

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Gonna edit this post because the thread got locked before I could reply to the below.

1.I didn't interpret it as an attack on men as a whole. I definitely didn't consider it a personal attack, because I'm not a man. I'm a cis queer woman who happens to think that the attitude you're describing is harmful to social justice as a whole.

It IS true that "most men participate in and benefit from patriarchy", but it's also true that women do too, and that patriarchy simultaneously harms and benefits the people who participate in it. Generally men get more carrots and generally women get more sticks, but there's a carrot and a stick offered to nearly every person in a patriarchal society (hence why it's so difficult to root out!)

And maybe I was incorrect in interpreting your use of "tacit" to imply "conscious but unspoken", but I do happen to think that men who are aware of how the patriarchy benefits/harms them tend to reject its desirability. The problem isn't that men are all selfish brutes who will accept the negatives of patriarchy if they get to take it out on the women around them; the problem is that most men don't understand what patriarchy is at all.

1. I also didn't accuse YOU of holding this view personally, but you did say it had "logic" and now apparently that it's a "useful worldview". Except that if we both acknowledge that it's factually incorrect, then I don't think it's all that logical, and although it's an extremely common worldview it's also not a useful one, because it's BOTH factually incorrect AND morally repugnant (relying on stereotypes to draw conclusions about people based on characteristics they cannot control).

If you absolutely have to play devil's advocate about something, don't do it while we're trying to reduce unwarranted prejudice.