Assistant general secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions HENRY FOWLER reports on day 1 from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at Quorn Grange Hotel
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He quickly responded, cross and full of indignation, that men could be feminists too. I’m not too big to be corrected — even by my own son — so I quickly agreed, but asked him whether he was a feminist.
He thought for a few moments. “Yes,” he finally replied, “but not diehard.” I’m going to spend the next few years working on developing the “diehard.”
More seriously, I struggle to understand why so many in this generation have such a problem with the “F word.”
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