Men's Group

good way to remind the old brain about the limitations of semantic maps, labels, and the like.

Edited to add: When I have, previously, self-identified as a "Feminist", I have gone by the definition popularized on signs and t-shirts at places like the March For Womens Lives I attended in DC, in 2004; namely, "Feminism is the radical idea that women are people", radical, of course intended facetiously. Or that Feminism was the struggle for equal rights regardless of gender. Both seemingly straightforward, no-brainer concepts to me. Which is why I was surprised by the vehement arguments we recently saw pretty much drawing a stark line in the sand about "Men can't be Feminists".

Particularly in light of other things I've heard in recent years, complaints bemoaning young women disassociating themselves from the label "Feminist" because the label was perceived, wrongly we were told, as representing something intolerant, non inclusive, and most importantly meaning something other than (incorrectly, so it went) "the struggle for equal rights regardless of gender".

So again, it struck me as odd that all of a sudden there was this move to define the label more rigidly, and non-inclusive.