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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

Silly question maybe - can a man be a feminist?

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biryani · 25/06/2011 13:22

After a few glasses last night I got into a discussion with a male aqcuaintance about childcare etc. This man claims he's a feminist because he shares childcare etc with his wife, and has read Naomi Woolf and Andrea Dworkin. I said something like " you can't be a feminist because you're a man!", meaning that feminism arises out of a specifically female take on the world and that a man cannot experience this, being a man, and therefore cannot be a feminist as such although he may empathise and understand female issues.

now sober, I'm not sure. Who's right?

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hatwoman · 25/06/2011 13:25

a feminist is someone - anyone - who believes in equal rights for men and women. I know plenty of men who are feminists.