Men's Group

life before the women's movement changed everything. The women's movement has been and still is extremely important to me. As such, I suppose I migrated toward like minded people and I now have a family of feminists and pro-feminist men. There is a marked respect for one another in my family and extended family. The men would not even remotely be capable of mansplaining as we understand the term here. They are caregivers for their children, do housework without being asked and most important: they LISTEN to women. And their kids are raised that way, too!

You see, women are trying to tell folks here why these issues are important...and what seems to you as small stuff is really about a spectrum that needs to be examined from one end to the next, because it is all related. Seen in that context (which is not unique to women since I know men who understand it too), these "minor" issues take on a new meaning.

Which is why I am surprised and disappointed to discover men here on DU who cast our issues as being insubstantial or minor ones. I wonder "how can they not understand?" because I am surrounded by so many men who understand it in their very bones. There is no need to even discuss it...it is a given. And it doesn't mean the women are disrespectful of men. It is mutual respect. Which is what feminism and humanism is all about.