Reader: Get a grip, dude. Feminism is for everybody!

Feminism isn't a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody. Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women's Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece...

By Patricia Calhoun

March 14, 2012

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Feminism isn't a ladies-only club, Bree Davies pronounced yesterday. Feminism is for everybody.

Including two very supportive male friends: one of whom attended the Rally to Protect Women's Health at the Capitol Monday, both of whom earned a shout-out in her piece.

As for that clueless fellow who told Bree that she should move to another country if she wanted to see what it was "really like to have it hard as a woman," Sees62 says:

Unbelievable! It's like a black man worshiping the apartheid regime that ran South Africa. Get a grip dude. Go read A Voice for Men.

Have you hugged your male feminist friend today? Read Bree's piece here, and learn more about the Rally to Protect Women's Health here.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12's public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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