I confess, I was probably not concerned about feminism, equality, the gender pay gap, or most of the issues facing women, but then I became the father to an amazing daughter.
I was in the army at the time serving in a branch that didn't allow women. I didn't see gender based discrimination or harassment at work. I never considered the fact that women weren't permitted to do my job because the world would be better off if nobody did.
Before I get carried away on a tangent, I am a feminist now, not because I want equality and fair play for my own child although it started there, but because my daughter is an amazing woman who points out my bullshit when I am in the wrong.
She gave me a lot to think about, like telling me that I shouldn't be against misogyny, sexism, and double standards on her behalf, but because they're horrible. And she does not start an argument without research, evidence, and documentation to support her.
Okay, I hope that most men who are not feminist are like I was in that it's just because they are oblivious to it. I suspect however that a lot of them if not all are scared by idiotic propaganda and don't have a forceful, outspoken, external conscience to enlighten them.
In the end, I am a feminist simply because I don't think anyone should be treated as less than human for any reason unless they're an asshole.

Well said secure Sir!

I deleted my last post here, I understand somone replied, I did not see it. I had just learned some injustices of feminism a few days ago, and was a little bit too passionate. According to definition, I am a feminist, however I can no longer affiliate myself with a group that demonizes men and attempts to purvay sexuality, you could say the organization does not practice what they preach.

Because up until a few years ago I couldn't get a salesperson, male or female, to wait on me at an electronics store or car lot without the presence of a man and I make a whole lot more money than all the men in my life put together.

Says it all really

IGNORANCE: meaning, not knowing or understanding...
FEMINISM: recognizing, demanding equal rights whenever denied, power of women.
Feminism became a media “rallying cry” sometime in the 60’s... I don’t think most men understood the need, or purpose back in the day.
Today... many men still don’t understand the need, unfortunately, many women as well.
Interpretation.

In uplifting women we uplift society as a whole, the same as uplifting any group that is not getting a fair shake uplifts us all (witness the civil rights movement). Bottom line is human rights (tho I am not making the same point as "all lives matter!!), feminism is recognizing an existing "unfairness" & striving to correct it. It "should" carry many other issues with it as it rises, it should NOT be exclusive, doctrinaire, or corrosive & realize that most (I believe) men do wish to help & believe we can improve.

I went to the march in LA. I was there last year, too. There were a lot more men this year at the march. Hurray! The speeches were more intersectional. The speeches were about workers' rights. Poverty, Homelessness. Peace. Equal rights. Feminism is about CARING about other people, men, women, trans, gay, the impoverished, etc. Feminism is about a sustainable world for everyone, and that world can't be sustainable if there is social injustice for any group.

Yes, women still don't earn the same amount of pay for the same job as men. Yes, women still get raped and murdered. My sister was a forensic nurse. She was on-call for rape and battery cases. Most women refused to file a police report because they were afraid of the repercussions: more brutality, becoming homeless, not being able to support their children, being a single mom (which is so difficult especially if you don't have family close by), being BLAMED for the rape.

Feminism is about being a decent human being who wants fair and equal treatment for all. It's time we start standing up for and with each other. Lifting each other up. Respecting each other. It's very simple, really.

So after reading the comments here I'm choosing to pass on saying anything more than Im with you.

Well stated!

What I feel as a man is retribution; suppressed anger being taken out on the most sensitive crop of men ever raised in this nation. We ‘didn’t do it,’ but we’re being blamed.. Maybe it’s a ‘backlash’ whose time has come ..though I’ve watched ‘feminism’ on the march since the 70’s … too much, and the movement stands to lose their greatest allies among men.

Many of the tipping votes for trump came from men, not upset by legitimate balance, but what they view as overreach. To me, the ‘me too’ outings prove the ability of modern women to gain justice within ‘the system.’ But marching to become, remove, overpower or replace ‘men’ is not a positive message, though perhaps a good opportunity for men to assess a potential mate…

I’ve daughters raised by their father. They have expectations, not demands. They view the sexes as complementary, not adviserial. And, they’ve a lot of attention from good young men astonished by their lack of aggressive feminism.. They’ll also describe female friends stuck in constant battle or looking for a fight.. If my daughters’ expectations are not met, they act, but do not condemn all men for the behavior of a few.

We need it because of the past. It was not that long ago women could not buy a home, credit card etc. With a husband or father. That mess ended in the 70's. Today, especially in the south many men would love to go back to that period. Many tell their wives how to vote and they do as they are told. The mindset of the women has to change in order for this movement to be fruitful.

Best post I've seen on this site so far.

If I get on a train at night and find the carriage is empty but for a woman on her own, there's a good chance she's going to worry I might attack her (so I move to a different carriage). Sometimes, when I'm walking home at night, if there's a woman in front of me she'll walk faster and get her phone ready to contact the police. Women shouldn't have to be afraid of men, so that's one reason.

Through history, we've ignored half of all the great scientists, doctors and philosophers simply because they were women. Of course, there are plenty of women in these fields today, but still girls at school are less likely to study science than boys. Who knows where we'd be if this hadn't happened? That's another.

Women still aren't paid as much as men, even in liberal countries - International Women's Day is celebrated in March to mark the fact that the average woman has to work that far past New Year's Eve on top of the previous year to earn the same amount the average man earned in 12 months. That's one too.

Women's sports, and no doubt many other things, operate on budgets that are only a tiny fraction of men's sports because society in general still has a belief that women's sports can't be as good as men's sports, so it doesn't get as much media space and sponsors don't want to back it. Another.

Little girls are still brought up being told it's important to be pretty and nice, "or the boys won't like you." Little boys are raised to be confident and self-assured, which is part of the reason men still outnumber women at managerial and executive level in many companies. Reason 5.

Female genital mutilation still takes place, and nobody even knows how many little girls are left to die around the world because boys are considered more valuable. Six.

Because feminism is good for everyone, not just women. The entire world, and individual men, would be better off without the sort of toxic masculinity that is held up as something to aspire to. I could go on...

I don't think this new wave anti-male form of feminism is healthy or equal. I do believe that feminism has an important place in our society right now. My only hope is that one day we won't have a need for words like feminist or atheist. I hope that we can move past antiquated and wrong thinking into an age of reason and rationality.

From what I have observed is the violence training if you can call it that, starts at a young age at home. To educate people how not to repeat the bad training that was done to them. To point out not to repeat the way bad parents learned from their parents. That to encourage instead of spite children.

Well not all men are insane. We do need feminism but not too much of an extreme level. Feminism should be questioning equality in everything. Not just showing that only women matter.