Silly question maybe - can a man be a feminist?

[biryani]

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?

Awesome Pan

So men should blithly follow whatever course is being determined by feminists, 'to support the agenda they have decided upon', no matter what on earth what 'agenda' that is??

I''m not saying men have to agree with everything feminists say, rather that we shouldn't be dictating the agenda. Find out what feminists want first & then decide whether and to what extent you want to support it. Anything else is a waste of time.