Today I was discussing with my male friends what he could get as a gift for his brand new girlfriend. I suggested going to the Body Shop and getting a nice arrangement of stuff for her. He instantly turned the idea down because he didn’t want to go in and have people assume he was gay, with my boyfriend backing him up on this.
I then stated how this is why feminism is important, so that men can also go and do things like this without feeling the way they did. I was immediately shut down by them saying how ‘no, that’s equality, feminism isn’t that!’, and despite how much I tried to say that feminism was about equality for both genders, they wouldn’t listen.
I feel like men would be more open to the idea of feminism (instead of shutting the idea down or saying how you’re a ‘femi-nazi’) if they understood that it’s equality for both genders, not female superiority or women wanting something more than men.
