I use to believe/think that men could be feminists

[NoOneMan]

82. "is that women don't garner the same respect"

So you all just don't want male mouthpieces around, stealing the spotlight because they may automatically garner more respect? IOW, the efficiency of the movement is second to the process in which it works? Equality is not worth achieving if it is not all women responsible for achieving it?


Hey, whatever. This whole thread amounts to an untold amount of silliness to me. But since I'm a male, I won't be telling anyone not to be silly. You have a equal right to be as petty, divisive and silly as anyone else. If this is a battle you want to pick, all the power to you all (though, I really shouldn't symbolically "grant power" as if I am an authority simply because I am male).


I can imagine there are a thousand things people can't parse out of my words to build a raging case against me as a hidden misogynist, so I should stop soon. In any case, congrats to all you bona fide feminists for making your movement so hostile to male critique that we simply lose interest in following the discussions we are no longer allowed to participate in (for fear of being dog-piled with straw man arguments and angst).