"Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule.

[redqueen]

146. Thank you for your understanding re: men claiming to be feminists. As you are obviously aware, many

feminists find this problematic.


The startling thing about this issue is that there really is nothing bad about being called a male ally or a pro-feminist man, yet many men will get upset at being informed that many feminists would rather they use such a term instead of identifying as a feminist.

One common retort is that they're just words, but that being the case, why the struggle to avoid identifying as male allies or pro-feminist men? Is this stubborn insistence not yet another manifestation of male privilege?

Men cannot ever completely understand what it is like to be a girl or a woman. Unless they were lied to about their sex, and treated like a girl as they were growing up, so that they would be subjected to the same different treatment girls and women get, starting in infancy.



I feel the need to share this now.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/man-finally-put-in-charge-of-struggling-feminist-m,2338/

WASHINGTON—After decades spent battling gender discrimination and inequality in the workplace, the feminist movement underwent a high-level shake-up last month, when 53-year-old management consultant Peter "Buck" McGowan took over as new chief of the worldwide initiative for women's rights.

McGowan, who now oversees the group's day-to-day operations, said he "couldn't be happier" to bring his ambition, experience, and no-nonsense attitude to his new role as the nation's top feminist.

"All the feminist movement needed to do was bring on someone who had the balls to do something about this glass ceiling business," said McGowan, who quickly closed the 23.5 percent gender wage gap by "making a few calls to the big boys upstairs." "In the world of gender identity and empowered female sexuality, it's all about who you know."

McGowan, who was selected from a pool of roughly 150 million candidates, made eliminating sexual harassment his first priority before working on securing reproductive rights for women in all 50 states, and promoting healthy body images through an influx of strong, independent female characters in TV, magazines, and film.

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