Success Quote by Tammy Bruce

The line lands like an internal memo leaked to the public: feminism isn’t merely embattled by external backlash, Tammy Bruce suggests, it’s strategically underperforming. By framing men as a constituency the movement has “failed” to “bring along,” she shifts feminism from moral crusade to coalition politics. The verb choice matters. “Bring” implies leadership and persuasion, not surrender; “along with us” casts women (or feminists) as the default travelers and men as the missing passengers. It’s an invitation and an indictment in the same breath.

The subtext is a critique of how movements communicate when they’re winning cultural visibility but losing persuasion. Bruce is implicitly arguing that a movement can be right and still be socially ineffective if it treats half the population as an adversarial audience rather than potential allies. That’s a provocative reframing because it pulls attention away from patriarchy as a system and toward feminism as a brand: messaging, tone, incentives, and the cost of entry for outsiders.

Contextually, this sits in the long-running fault line between “feminism as structural analysis” and “feminism as broad-based reform project.” It echoes earlier equality-era strategies that emphasized shared stakes (workplace fairness, family life, social stability) while also anticipating the modern backlash economy, where grievance thrives on the story that feminism equals male loss. Bruce’s intent is to argue that feminism’s durability depends not just on justice claims, but on narrating a future in which men can recognize themselves without being centered.