I'm a man.

Me too. As are most people that you'll currently encounter on lemmy.

I don't expect sympathy, and when I get it I suspect an ulterior motive on the part of the person offering it.

I meant more in the sense of "sympathy strike" rather than "sympathetic ear". It's useful to be able to collaborate with others on shared goals, both in pursuit of the anarchist cause and of one's personal interests. An attitude of "only class matters, shut up about feminism or queer liberation or whatever" is detrimental to said collaboration.