The "brocialist" is generally a good leftist. His heart is probably in the right place. But he has a gigantic blind spot when it comes to women, one that is both political (he is not sensitive to feminist concerns) and personal (he can be a pig).

My experience is that 'brocialists' don’t openly embrace patriarchy; they deny it’s a problem. Or they minimise it. They direct your attention elsewhere: you should be focusing on class. You’re being divisive. You’re just middle class (quelle horreurl). Or they attack a straw 'feminism' that is supposedly ‘bourgeois’ and has nothing to say about class or other axes of oppression. Or they just ignore it.

Here we see a sterling example of the wily Brocialist in the wild.