"feminism implies a belief that the interests of women should take precedence over the interests of men"

there's nothing wrong with advocating the interests of a discriminated against group. this is not the same as wanting those interests to take precedence, once equality is reached. you won't find many mainstream feminists who argue for a matriarchal society for example.

feminism = egalitarianism (wanting women to be on par with men)
feminism =/= female superiority

the idea of men promoting female superiority is actually the most sensible to me.
Our mothers were the first and foremost big caring figure. I love and adore women and would give them far more slack in everything. At school i lilked loads of female teachers I was either frightened of, wanted to challenge or punch the the male teachers, I thought they were gitty heirarchical tossers.....(not all were of course, but those that tried to be reasonable rather than forceful and confident sounding were described as being 'less masculine')
A lot of human attributes are ascriubed to a gender, which is bizarre and wierd and ties up with ideas of personal confidence and peer positioning. Its incredibly muddled and complex....I acknowledge that women can make the most awful leaders when we only have a few (like thatcher) but aethetically having a 'Goddess' seems a lot nicer than a 'God'
I have problems accepting that other males are more alpha than me...i would have no problem in accepting that a female might be the leader of the group.

paradoxically this actually makes me appear to be quite heirarchically macho which im not. Im not going to ruin my soul to get to the top of all males when it is merely artificial societorial constructs that provide the unatural measuring stick for leaders and power.

And Power is what the whole 60's/70's/80's feminist thing tended to be about (nowadays it mainly foicuses on equal pay and 'number' of women in government and judiciary and upper management)
In its purist form it wanst just about power of actual gender but also power of relative human qualities, thus the 'macho' nature of military matters also became an integral part of feminism to some. the feminists protesting outside of greenham common would not have been glad that nowadays some women can also now fly fast jets and bomb people.

The true feminist (in my view) should aspire to no one being unfairly falsely discriminated against (with opportunity or opinion) due to the mores of society when this is an artificial quirk of society and not nature. They should also aspire to not allow certain qualities to rule unfairly over otheres when it makes little sense to do so

'feminism implies a belief that the interests of women should take precedence over the interests of men'

oh man that is SUCH bullshit. anyone who takes that as a foundation of their belief wouldn't count as feminist. the VAST majority of feminists would entirely reject as feminist one who believed in the superiority of women over men. the reason that feminism exists, essentially, is because women have very rarely had equality in the eyes of the law and wider society.

it's all very well trying to argue this on the basis of an '-ism' being inherently concerned with asserting superiority, but whilst this may be so for many '-ism's it is not part of the meaning of the word, the ending -ism actually technically defines a belief system without any reference to content. don't misappropriate that in order to justify a belief which is simply wrong!

ps germaine greer is not a feminist, she is a cunt. glad i got that out of my system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joss_Whedon#Feminism

"Whedon identifies himself as a feminist, and feminist themes are common in his work. For his part, Whedon credits his mother, Lee Stearns, as the inspiration for his feminist worldview. When Roseanne Barr asked him how he could write so well for women, he replied, "If you met my mom, you wouldn't ask."[27]

The character Kitty Pryde from the X-Men comics was an early model for Whedon's strong teenage girl characters: "If there's a bigger influence on Buffy than Kitty, I don’t know what it was. She was an adolescent girl finding out she has great power and dealing with it."[28]

Whedon was honored at an Equality Now benefit in 2006: "Honoring Men on the Front Lines",[29] and his fans raised a considerable amount of money in support of the organization"

etc

Why do you think a man can't be a feminist?