[jmd5898]

Yes, men absolutely have a role in the struggle for women equality. In our society at large the male persepective is the main perspective so if we don’t include them and educate them about the struggle it will never fully come into our society at large. I do believe that men can become feminists because feminism is just the belief of gender equality with a focus on women. The reason that men should be feminists and not humanists is that the language and perspective about women need to change because it is hurting all genders. If we are able to change the language and the perspective on gender and accept that it can mean so many different things we learn that stereotypes that are set in place harm everyone involved. When we educate men about feminism we are helping ourselves and them learn from a new and different perspective that breaks those stereotypes allowing people to become more humanized. Because our culture is so centered around the mistreatment of women it has become normalized and it has also allowed men and women to think that that normalization is alright. Men can help in the struggle by becoming educated and help change the perspective by talking and thinking of equal rights and society in a more holistic which will lead to being able to understand each other better than before.

[jmd5898]

I believe that so much of the lack of resources about men supporting women’s rights is due to the fact that we live in a patriarchal society. For most of our education in schools is primarily from the white male perspective we often lose the idea that history has other versions and perspectives. I also think that it is because now women have more rights and when you first look at the Suffragette’s movement we you do come across many propaganda posters. These images are often very offensive to women and also to men who support women. It shows women as undesirable if they present themselves as feminists and I think that most men of that time believed that. Due to the fact that we are not in our 3rd wave of the feminist movement and that our society has begun to change for the better as far as equality for all genders, I believe that as far as history goes men did not want to be shown as a part of a movement that was thought of as hating them. I also think that because most of our historical accounts come from white men that perhaps throughout the movement many men who handled those accounts did not feel they, as a gender and race, should be involved and simply did not include it in the preservation of the history that we know now.

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