The honest answer is going to be incredibly difficult for him to receive intellectually and even more difficult for people to willingly share with him, but would start with 'friendship, love and sex are real, related but distinct, and important, but dating and boyfriends aren't'
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One way to think about this is that a real feminist does not embrace a 'feminism' which invalidates his own 'lived experience', or which 'silences' him with regard to his own sexual and emotional desires.
As someone who is probably closest to being a central example of the type you're describing as a real male feminist, this seems like a curious definition in that it requires one to actively break new theoretical ground against the active opposition of most feminists.
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Like I don't think most women feminists count as real feminists by this definition either.
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Sure, but until not too long ago, no women were feminists. Do you imagine that when social pressure arises to adopt an identity the majority of the adherents of that identity are sincere and we'll informed about any accompanying ideology?
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Mathematicians distinguish between problem solving and system building. Both constitute 'breaking new theoretical ground', in the sense of doing something new, not just by trying to avoid making a mistake.Anyone who understands some math can solve some problems, break some ground
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In my experience, applying feminist theories in order to engage in problem solving in the real world leads to the universal approval of essentially any women actively engaged with feminism, though not every woman who would accept the term feminist if she was asked to.
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