I use to believe/think that men could be feminists

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41. i don't disagree that there are different concepts involved.

and that there's a relevant, material difference between a pro-woman man and a pro-woman woman.
i don't think we're disagreeing on the concepts involved. i agree there that i'll never fully understand a woman's experience no matter how many migraines i get

what i'm wondering about is the terminology. it's easy to clarify gender where important. so to me it only makes sense as a time-saver in the sense that gender is so often relevant that it's more convenient, linguistically, to have a single term that specifies both pro-woman and female and to have a more awkward term for pro-woman males ("feminist allies&quot rather than to have the term "feminist" include all genders and then need to constantly clarify ("woman feminist&quot .

except it doesn't seem to me that one needs to constantly clarify because gender is usually clarified. it's the first thing people talk about even before a child is born (do you want a boy or a girl?); it's often obvious from one's name and almost always obvious from one's appearance, etc. so by the time one gets to discussing feminism, the genders involved are usually well-known.

anyway, i'll continue to fight for equality for all and fairness among genders regardless of what you call me