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In reply to the discussion: Should men be leaders in the feminist movement? [View all]smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I think not. We can support them, but I don't think it our place to usurp their fight.
I remember in grad school going to an AA project. The school I went to was mostly upper middle class white men and women. Although we meant well, one woman who was a leader at the project told us straight out that we had no idea as to they were and where they were coming from and therefore we could not fight their fight.
She specifically said to me, "You, with the big blue eyes, do you think you can even understand our experience?" I said that I supposed I really couldn't. That was a turning point for me. As much as I wanted to help, I could never really, truly understand their experience and it would have been arrogant of me to suppose that I could have