Yes, I am. It's the only way for a bloke to get his leg over these days!

Most of the feminists I meet keep blaming and attacking men, fearing and putting down one particular group of people as the source of their problems. It seems like such hateful prejudice sometimes. So, I'd have to say that I'm a Humanist, not a feminist. As men gain more opportunities to be social and emotionally communicative around supportive, safe, open people, I'd like women to gain more opportunities to be ruthlessly competitive and objectifying in business, economic, and power-based matters. Everyone needs more equality and diverse opportunity, without any one group being scapegoated or attacked. All humans.

At times. Only when no one can see me.

Nope.

yes...and yes I am sure:)

Are you? How cute..

nah women aren't better than men, men aren't better than women. i have no resentment towards men for anything that i would automatically assume that women were better. it's just another term that the narrow minded have corrupted - it no longer means one that supports women's rights so much as one that supports women's rights and will rebel against men for their injustice to women

I used to be a feminist, but nowadays, feminism seems to want equal outcomes and not equal opportunity. This is not equality. Some want both opportunity and outcomes to be in favour of women. This is why i am more of an 'equalist' than feminist.

answerbag will not let me post my response to you, i will keep trying.

Depends on how you define the term -- many of the so-called "leaders" of the feminist movement have strayed so far from the original intent of those organizations that they've become unrecognizable.

Absolutely, positively not! I believe in treating women and men fairly and according to the law. However, feminists don't want equality, no matter how many times they claim they do. Feminists have earned a reputation for blaming males (even boys) for all the world's ills, especially women's. Feminists also have this hypocritical pattern of picking and choosing when they want equality and when they want to be treated a certain way because of being female. Feminists also either support blatant hatred of men or participate in it themselves. Their talk of equality is nothing more than a politically correct ruse to give themselves an heir of legitimacy. I see right through their hypocrisy.

To be honest I'm having a harder and harder time with it. I have met so many feminists who see the world in unreal ways - for instance that domestic violence is always about male suppression of women - that I think the movement has lost touch. I'm for equal opportunity for everyone. M/F B/W etc...

In it's origional form yes, men and women should be equal... but some feminists now want women to be treated better than men, which i don't agree with, equality all the way... There are some things now that do descriminate against men, there are lots of women only clubs, but the men only clubs now have to let women in, that is discrimination. Some people forget that...

No.

NO! I love and respect all women!!

Yes I am. I'm sure that I support full rights and fully equal opportunities for women. IMO it was feminists (even though they might have been called suffragists back then) that procured the right to vote for women, the right for women to participate in sports, the fair treatment of female rape victims, a woman's right to choose whether to terminate her pregnancy, and brought the world's attention to the oppression of women by the Taliban. Perhaps there are some extreme feminists that I might not agree with, but I don't discount an entire movement because of them anymore than I consider the Taliban or OJ to be representative of men in general.

No I'm not and yes I'm sure. I am for equality but feminists are not.

Proudly so.

I'm a white male from the south, and also a proud and staunch feminist. That combination alone tends to blow people's minds.

I am 100% sure that i am not feminist .

I am absolutely, 100% a feminist of the Third-Wave variety, and yes, I'm sure. The more I learn about the world - about sociology, about economics, history, etc, the more surely secured I am in my position as a feminist. Reading a lot of the other responses that you've gotten has been somewhat disheartening for me, though. Feminism these days has become a rather dirty word, thanks to the conservative backlash that's attempted to "put women in their place" through media and economics. It's disheartening because of the level of antipathy I see towards all women because so many men seem to feel threatened by feminism. To be sure, many feminists themselves have given the movement a bad name - but those are individuals who do not represent the larger movement, which was instigated by real oppression and inequlity. In my opinion, no true feminist would ever devalue men just because they are men. No true feminist would ever engage in outright man-bashing. Men are human beings, and very valuable members of society, just like women are - and despite what many men seem to think, feminists are NOT out to feminize men or make them submissive to us. As a gender that has been historically oppressed, what would we gain by oppressing others, except to perpetuate a vicious cycle? I realize that many men feel displaced by the feminist movement and just don't know what to make of it, or new gender relations. For so long, masculinity has been equated to dominance and breadwinning. One of the major shortcomings (among many) of feminism in the past is that it failed to recognize that the proscribed Image of "normal" masculinity needs to be re-evaluated in the face of the changing image of femininity. If women are bringing in their own income and are therefore allowed the same leverage as men, it's understandable that men would feel displaced given that their perceived "power" (dominance in the household as a result of womens' economic dependence on them) has been made obsolete. But the problem here isn't feminism; it's that while women have re-defined their femininity, men have failed to do the same for themselves regarding their own masculinity (though it seems this is changing). Another shortcoming of feminism from the past is that it has focused almost exclusively on Western, white, middle- and upper-class women, and their specific brand of oppression. The main issue here being the misnomer that feminism and womens' equal rights was all tied in to their entering the workforce. But women have always worked - in the global capitalist market, women have historically been the lowest-waged laborers. So let me re-phrase that: poor women, who are disproportionately women of color, have always worked. For wages, at least: whoever says that taking care of a household and raising children isn't "work" was seriously addled in the brains. But the feminist movement as we're most familiar with it has been mostly concerned with the middle- and upper-class women. Even today, we upper/middle-class white Western women who both work and raise families are almost entirely dependent on the economic vulnerability of poor women. In my opinion, feminism needs to recognize that as an issue as well. Because if we're going to scream "equality" between genders, we need to be damn sure that we don't mean the equality of some but not others. So here is my definition of feminism: the belief that women and men should be socially, politically, and economically equal, with the same opportunities as well as repercussions for both sexes, regardless of race or class. If you agree with this statement, you are also a feminist. The problem is actually achieving this sort of equality, because the vast majority doesn't fully understand what the real problems, that have persisted to this day, are in the first place. And it's a really complex issue that goes far beyond the scope of just gender relations alone. Thanks for listening to my rant =P

Hail no. I'm positive.