But, as she describes in her autobiography
This Way To The Revolution (p. 114) she was, as always, undeterred and:
"We opened the house, and I faced another stark reality. Whereas filling a house with women and children resulted in the women quickly forming a community and taking charge of their own lives, filling a house with men resulted in them disappearing into a room and sitting helplessly on their beds or else sulking because their was no one to run the place and take care of cooking and other practical matters.
In vain we talked to them about the set-up in Chiswick. We talked about self-help. We talked about how we would decorate the satellite houses ourselves as well as do minor repairs. We talked about their responsibility to care for one another. We met with blank silence. They were not only unwilling or incapable of caring for each other in the house but we were unable to get any male volunteers to help out."
As a result her abused men project petered out and things have not improved much in the decades since. Her observations also provide some basis for why many feminists desire to return to a matriarchy with total disregard for all the material benefits our patriarchal society has generated.
