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12 January 2012updated 27 Sep 2015 1:31am

Can men be feminists?

Male supporters of women's rights risk looking like "white knights" riding to the rescue.

By Nicky Woolf

When Nick Cohen recently spoke out to defend Laurie Penny from attacks online, attacks that are an all-too-common experience for female writers, he began trending on Twitter. It became a rallying cry — despite the point having been made extremely cogently already by female writers.

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