I'm a male feminist who's been interested in the topic for a long time, I started out as opposed to the idea, I'd met a couple of feminists and they were pretty bitter.

At university I did some reading and realised that that sort of thing shouldnt be considered representative (I was young at the time, I was still growing up and hadnt learned to stop generalising), I really liked Simone De Beauvoir's writings in The Second Sex, I felt it made me understand women more and also some of it spoke to me too (a lot of the certainties of earlier patriarchy have gone, so men can experience the conflicts and existential angst described in that book, not equally but none the less).

Anyway, I've been barred from one feminist forum that I've participated in and hounded out of another conservative forum, which both have influenced my thinking a little.

I'm beginning to wonder what's men's place in a feminist movement or progressing feminist causes, do they have a role? Or should they stick to accompanying issues like equality?