A Rejoinder: Black Feminism and the Cult of Masculinity: The Danger Within

response to my article, Myth of Black Macho: A Response to Angry Black Feminists,1 was not unexpected, as it was written to provoke dialogue on the subject. That it was so sharply divided along gender lines was not what I expected or wanted. The men, whether they agreed with me or not, discussed the issues I raised. The women chose to attack me as a male rather than deal with the flawed work of their sister in arms, Michele Wallace.2 From reading their responses, one would think I had advocated a classical male