to all those men so "offended" by the feminists

[davidn3600]

262. You see, this is what Im talking about...

I never said you were not a feminist. And I never said rapists shouldnt be prosecuted. That's just stupid to suggest such a thing. Now I have said in certain cases that it didnt appear there was enough evidence to bring a case. That doesnt mean I support rapists.

Where you will run into heated conflict with myself and others here is when you get into the Catharine McKinnon and Andrea Dworkin crap and start saying things like that all pornography promotes rape, or when you attack the sexual activities of consenting adults. Such feminists were even trying in the 1980s to use federal civil rights laws to try to ban any LEGAL porn they believed was exploitative. The sex wars pretty much killed the second wave which began to attack sexual exploitation. But the third wave is more libertarian. Feminists today, especially the youth, in the mainstream have no interest in banning porn, banning BDSM, or putting restrictions on the individual woman. On the contrary, most feminists today think women should be able to express themselves sexually in any manner they choose to, and that it should be society that should change the negative attitudes it has against such women that express themselves in that manner.

I had a professor back when I was in college that was very openly feminist. She at one time said she even supports the decriminalization of prostitution. (I could go into why she thought that, but that's another topic).

You are free to believe and have whatever opinion you want. But understand that there are feminists out there that dont share all your beliefs in exactly the same way. And just because someone has a different opinion than you does not make them a misogynist or sexist.