I am no longer affiliated with any organizations that claim they are feminist groups precisely because they paint everything the same dark color and with the same broad brush.

I am still using the term "feminism" from time to time to describe myself.

But I am not interested in creating instittutions design to protect women from abuse or violence. Where the law hasn't caught up to the notion that assault is assault and battery is battery reguardles ot sex, sexual expression or gender orientation, I still protest the inequity.

But I am not a feminist in order to make things better for women. I have never been a feminist for that reason. I am a feminist to make things better for men. Inequality based on sex traps everyone. Just as inquality based on sexual orientation and gender expression.

I am not interested in being the protector of women and children. I resent it strongly when some women expects me to be her champion especially if I don't know her.

My brand of feminism is pretty old school. I want women to be empowered and weaned from the social "need for men." I am disheartened, though.

I see it at Rocky Horror all the time. It is the rare young women who acts on her own behalf when the going gets tough. There is an expectation of chivalry (even if it's a mutated form) in all the teenagers I know.

Feminism as a movement seems to have lost its mind and, therefore, its direction. And women are paying for it (in the US) with the the newest battles against woman's basic right to determine her own destiny.

My brand of radical feminism isn't tolerated in the feminist communities anymore. :)