Katherine wrote,
>One visitor was relieved to
> hear me comment
> that "yes, men in the US can call/consider themselves feminist" . This
> cheered her up a bit. But then, I said, some factions of
> feminist practice
> distrust male feminists, fearing that in the end they can "go
> back" to those
> positions of power and authority--when status abdication gets
> tiresome.
I think this point is relative to our discussion on diversity. Affirmation
of diversity can be defined bureaucratically as a group representation or
meaningfully as a diversity of goals, relationships, and ways of doing
things (as opposition to normality). I think that a concern that male
dominance or any other type of oppression can take over a feminist movement
is real if the movement "forgets" to reflect on emerging relationships
within the movement.
In other words, a person is open-minded not because what s/he says but
because what people depended on this person say about him/her. In my view,
it is a good test of open-mindedness by power.
What do you think?
Eugene