Can a man teach feminism?

Teaching does not mean promoting or supporting.

You can teach facism but that does not make you a facist. History teachers, teach the rise of Nazism without being Nazis.

Feminism is a political theory with many different aspects, in the same way socialism or conservatism is. Teachers of political theory will teach all these and while the will have their own views that should not influence their teaching of the various theorem.

As we all know feminism has a variety of iterations, no one will support or promote all of them. A good teacher will present all of these.

Feminism is an academic subject. Posters are presenting their ideas of feminism- and that's fine - but a teacher must also present opposing ideas and criticisms.

In my experience at degree level lectures will make you aware of their own bias so you can treat them like any source of information.

Well said thebewilderness

My thoughts exactly.

What men will teach is what that man thinks Feminism is or should be. That is how we got the substitution of "equality" for "the political movement for the liberation of women". Men mansplaining Feminism.
Most people already know more than they want to on that subject.

How people can make the argument that men can teach Feminism in a world where women cannot even get our most basic medical needs met because of the underlying male bias in every aspect of life astonishes me.

If the subject has any academic rigour to it then there's no logical reason why the sex of the lecturer should be relevant.

If a man shouldn't be allowed to teach feminism, should men therefore not be allowed to take a feminism class?

Should male gynaecologists be dismissed as they can't possible know how it feels to have a hysterectomy, or female prostate specialists be made to retrain in 'female' medical subjects?

You can't bar people from teaching on the basis of sex anymore than you can on the basis or race or religion. If they are an arse then they won't stay in their job very long.

This is teaching amsubject not being it.

Can a conservative teach liberalism?

Can a socialist teach Thatcherism?

Can a man teach feminism?

The answer is yes.

Can a man be a feminist, different issue - discuss..........

#notallmen

I cannot hear this without hearing it said as a nasally whine.

Yes all men do have male privilege. That is the point.

anyone who says men cannot teach feminism has become what they hate, a sexist. the first thing you may say is "oh its not if they are men, oppressor, oppressor, blah, blah, blah" though that doesn't change the fact you are discriminating against a gender.

p.s about the oppressor thing i have wanted to ask this for a while. since men have male privilege and all of that does that mean that a homeless person is more privileged than lets say the queen
#notallmen

Well I'm sure if the man was apart of some war on women then I'm sure any university would be mistaken in hiring him, however if the man had done nothing wrong and just wanted to teach feminism then what's wrong with that?

Google Hugo Schwyzer for the answer to your question.
He wanted to teach Feminism so badly that he used his brothers credentials to gain his position of authority over young women.

housework drudgery not homework drudgery

@peakpant Our choices are limited to our understanding of what our choices are, granted, but for you to suggest that applies to the choices women make is going to alienate quite a lot of women. If we want to do the f/t child care for a number of years because we believe that it would be better for the dc, because that is what research tells us, and we know that our career will suffer because child care and homework drudgery is exhausting and just not compatible with work requiring a brain, and we decide we want to do it even if our dh offers to be the sahd instead, then that choice is nothing to do with oppression. Obviously there are many women who do not have the choice, this is just about women who do have the choice.

As for people choosing to leave law, I know so so many women who have left law altogether, abandoned any hopes of rising to the top I just don't know any female lawyers who have abandoned law because they had no hope of rising to the top. It is a meritocracy in every firm I have heard about. Bottom line, it is to do with billing targets and keeping clients happy, and getting on with colleagues, and not making mistakes, man or woman, nowadays. Women do not always want it.

Oh and as for being a SAHM for a few years and easily coming back to law on a part-time basis- HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Seriously the female lawyers i know were being contacted about jobs throughout maternity break, though they were senior and so that might make a difference.

@dancelikeemmagoldman In relation to your long post yesterday, I agree with what Germaine Greer said in the quotes you use, in one sense, I think equality is what we need to aim for legally and in terms of formal power and opportunity, but I think that she is right that women should aim to see up and beyond. All the successful women I have known have been successful not by complying with rules set by men but by doing their job in their own way, and making changes in their own ways.

But I do also think that some of the comments on here in relation to business have been 80s throwbacks (or even 60s throwbacks). Things are different now. Sexual politics nowadays is nothing like what it was in the 60s.

Women most certainly have been valued in the places I have worked. I was being mocked for saying this, but when you get an organisation offering large amounts of money and good terms then you know you are valued. I realise this will come across as NAMALT to some but the key issue for me in relation to "radical feminism" as set out in this thread is that I would prefer to fight against any kind of oppression (including not related to females) in the most effective way, seeing each instance of oppression as a distinct problem and finding solutions, rather than be limited to female oppression only, and having to see female oppression as part the other beliefs of radical feminists. So radical feminism just doesn't work as far as I can see. It is too limited, too rigid, no realistic end point.

Sturdy

We don't know what we don't know.
There was an example of biased perspective last night, when a poster (who was probably a teenage boy) was not aware of a facet of life that only affects women - didn't think it was important, and didn't want to talk about it.
But it costs women millions of pounds every year.

Yes but we do need to see equal weight given to women’s perspectives culturally.

I think people have a problem with quickly interpreting statistics as something that must be bias/sexist even if men made up 75% of feminism teachers but 4 times as many men apply for the jobs then that doesn't seem sexist to me, and since feminism as I understand it is equality between the sexes, which I interpret is equality of opportunity not equality of outcome.

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Mine too

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Good grief.

I think if women don’t comprise even a quarter of professors the bias will clearly be male.

By opposite bias I meant the contrary bias of a female teacher, since it was implied that a man wouldn't be able to teach feminism because of his bias against women which is opposite to the bias of a female teacher who would surely be behind the movement/idea.

There's definitely a thin line between sexism and feminism.
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An academia is there to teach facts not to recruit anyone into feminism.

What does opposite bias mean?

Asking for a friend. Very

Good grief.