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Re: Speaking as a guy who *doesn't* call himself a feminist
Why do we need movements for men? I can understand why the black (and other ethnic groups) needed the Civil Rights movement, and I can understand why Women needed the Women's Movement (I tend to think of Feminism as the extreme fascist form of that...and I know that my rhetoric is not normative in that regard), BUT I don't think that men need a movement or a group to be able to express their feelings on the Rights of Women.
It's their thing, let them do it. If a woman asks me how I feel, I'll raise my fist and say, "You go sister," while smiling as I get back to whatever I'm doing. If a woman asks me to help her in this movement, sure I'll help, but trying to promote women's rights as a man smacks to me of the same arrogance as trying to export Democracy into countries that haven't asked for it.
Re: Speaking as a guy who *doesn't* call himself a feminist
On the other hand, I think it's quite possible and legitimate to find the societally expected male gender roles annoying: to say that you don't have to give a damn about sports, that there's nothing wrong with caring about how you look, that you don't have to react all pissy-and-defensive any time a woman knows more about sex or trucks or blowing shit up than you do.
As Ben says, there's not a lot of good ways to express that, though. You've got wanky navel-gazing quasi-Pagans (who don't use deodorant) or you've got lead-eating Fundies who resemble that one Star Trek episode with the "devolution" rays. Or you've got women's rights, which may be the sane-est alternative.
And frankly, the fact that I've just described feminism as the sane alternative kind of scares me, because I've spent the last ten years going "I'm a feminist...but NOT CRAZY, dude, I SWEAR." (See also: die in a fire, Andrea Dworkin.)
Re: Speaking as a guy who *doesn't* call himself a feminist
See I like guns, I'm not a fundie, and only like sports that I'm playing in - I could give a damn about other teams or leagues. Although I can understand the draw of soccer. Women can do whatever they want and like. I know that there is too much information for me to ever absorb so there will be plenty of women out there that know more than I do about just about everything.