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In reply to the discussion: "Man-bashing." My favorite DU pule. [View all]justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)Unless you're gay, you have no concept what it's like to live as a gay person. You can sympathize, you can empathize, you can rail against the injustice of it all but you'll never, ever know what it's like to live in a gay persons' skin unless you're gay yourself. Same thing with gender. You can sympathize, you can empathize, you can rail against the injustice of it all but you'll never, ever know what it's like to live in a woman's skin. I think that men can make great allies to feminists but once you get a man proclaiming to be a feminist then telling women that they are wrong when we argue you can't be a feminist, well, you've lost the battle right then and there.
Besides, we've not even defined what kind of feminism you're talking about. Depending on the feminist philosophy depends on how your argument will pan out.