University Daily Kansan / Thursday, October 17, 1991
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Dennis Dailley. (left), Scott Rutherford, Mike Sullivan, and Jim Danoff-Burg discuss feminism at a forum.
Men should show strength by backing feminism, speaker says
By Rochelle Olson
Kansan staff writer
Feminism is a relatively new and difficult concept for men, said Dennis Koehler, a professor of law at the University.
Kansan staff writer
"I can hear my father in the back of my head saying, 'What a pussy you are.' "Dalley said last night to about 40 people at the Pine Room in the Kansas City suburbs.
He said it took men continuous work to overcome years of socialization.
Dailey was one of four men on a panel speaking about "Feminist Men." The Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center planned the event.
Men cannot be feminists, Dailey said. But they can take a pro-feminism stance.
"Saying that I am a feminist has a haunting flavor of taking over something that isn't mine," he said.
Dailey said that pro-feminist men took a stance against issues such as rape.
"Rape is our problem," Dailey said. "Men are raping, not women."
He said that pro-feminist men had learned to be brave in a way that most men would have perceived as being weak.
Being a pro-feminist man offers him the chance to heal from the condition
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of being congenitally male, Dailey said.
Jim Danoff-Burg, Lawrence graduate student, agreed.
He said understanding feminism would improve men's relationships with each other and women.
But it is difficult for men to make the transition, he said.
“Unless you are an ultra-machismo kind of guy, you are a fag.” Danoffo turns a new way to get to be an ultra-machismo girl of guy is by oppressing women.”
The first thing men should do is
"Refuse to buy into the cultural storm of bewilderment and domestating." he said.
refuse to be a man. Danoff-Burg said.
Mike Sullivan, Overland Park senior, said that the economic structure of society had subordinated women.
Economics, violence and homophobia are the weapons of sexism, Sullivan
As a gay man, Sullivan said he had a stake in the women's movement because it also was necessary to combat sexism against gay men.
"The movement should not exclude anyone." he said.
Scott Rutherford, Junction City senior, said that he had just begun
He agreed with Dailey that men could not be true feminists.
"I do not live every day as a woman," he said.
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Rutherford is a long-time member of such traditionally male institutions as BOTC and a Greek fraternity.
He said that although some people in his fraternity were very supportive of feminism, others were on the opposite side.
But Rutherford said he felt comfortable expressing his views in his fraternity.
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