I HAVE COME to see male group solidarity as an immensely powerful force in human affairs, more powerful, perhaps, than the feminism of the late twentieth century took into account.
Key features, as Le Guin identifies them:
- control (of self and others)
- loyalty (to the group above all)
- excluding (any who do not belong)
- defend (the group against all threats)
Highly developed “us vs. them” mentality which, in practice makes the group tight and cohesive, but potentially dangerous and destructive.
