Do you think feminism got a bad name due to misandrists calling themselves feminists?

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My opinion is that many of the so called feminists nowadays are actually misandrists and they use feminism to justify their behaviour. Feminism was originally about empowering women, not about hating on men. If it is actually about empowering women by hating on men then shouldn't it be called misandrism?

ChurchOfIron · Accepted Answer

If you read feminist theory, it has always had a tinge of misandry, even if it doesn't outright state it, sometimes--many other times it does. Read some of the popular 2nd wave feminist books. They're teeming with venom and self-superiority.

But who is doing the oppressing of women? Who is the one holding women down? Why do women need empowerment? Because of men. Because of the patriarchy.

Some fundamental beliefs of feminism is that men have oppressed women for thousands of years, that marriage was slavery and oppression, that the "patriarchy" created society in such a way so as to benefit men at the expense of women [all objectively false].

These were the origins of feminist belief. Tell me. What picture does this paint of men? On the same hand, what picture does this paint of women? The only group to remain oppressed for thousands of years, without a whimper? Until the past 100 years?

These feminist beliefs call women weak, dumb, submissive flowers who must be protected and taught, because they're so stupid and easily controlled [shut up woman, let me tell you why you need feminism]; and, these beliefs very much call men naturally evil oppressors.

Feminism has always called or suggested men are "the enemy". Even if it didn't state it outright.

Misandry is the natural progression of these beliefs. It's not that feminism got a bad name because of misandrists. It's that feminism got a bad name, because it creates misandry based on its horrible view on both men and women.

Exterminatore · Accepted Answer

I think feminism got a bad name when women were granted equal rights and privileges but not equal responsibility for those, rights and privileges. This was from the very start.

I have no problem with women having equal rights and privileges so long as their willing to have equal responsibility. That’s yet to happen.

Feminism also got a bad name when women sought to have more privileges and rights than men. This also was the intent from the start.

So feminism always had a bad name.

I do not distinguish between 3rd wave and 1st wave feminism or whatever. The intent was the same from the start. It was never about equality.

ImagineInsanity · Accepted Answer

Well, yes, that's one reason. It's also because what "feminists" nowadays claim to stand for. They claim to support women, yet support abortion and condemn pro-life or conservative women. They hail women like Madeleine Albright, who is noted for saying there's a special place in hell for women who don't support each other, in reference to those who didn't support Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Sometimes feminists can be reasonable people, but more often than not, they blindly follow the lies that the feminist movement feeds people today: that women are weak, vulnerable, made victims by the patriarchy, and that only through feminism can they ever hope to free themselves from the oppression they are always to be under. Honestly, feminism is a more oppressive moment than any fictitious "patriarchy" in modern Western countries, since if you condemn modern feminism to a feminist, you're far more likely to get screamed at and called a bigot than anything else.

rozequarts · Accepted Answer

I used to label myself a feminist before I realized how bullshit, and frankly, stupid this western world sees "equality".
Seriously ladies - young girls in other nations are married off at the age of 7, while boys are not. Young girls in other nations aren't allowed to leave the house, while boys are. Young girls in other nations aren't allowed to be educated - because their entire future has been determined for them, and they are to live for and serve the men in their lives. People in the east and west of this world still sexualize virginity, putting an emphasis on intact hymens, and some women are hurt or neglected if they dont meet that requirement. Women in india are outcasted if they become widows. Women in the middle east are victims of acid attacks if they reject a man for marriage. This is what I thought our goal was as feminists. Not "free the nipple" or complaining about mansplaining.

FakeName123 · Answer

"My opinion is that many of the so called feminists nowadays are actually misandrists and they use feminism to justify their behaviour. Feminism was originally about empowering women, not about hating on men."

You sure that it is only nowadays? And that original feminists were not about hating men, but about empowering women?

Let's hear influental feminists of the past out then:

“I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.” ~Robin Morgan

“I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig.” ~Andrea Dworkin

“Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” ~Susan Brownmiller

“The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race.” ~Sally Miller Gearhart

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He’s just incapable of it.” ~Barbara Jordan

“Compare victims’ reports of rape with women’s reports of sex. They look a lot alike….[T]he major distinction between intercourse (normal) and rape (abnormal) is that the normal happens so often that one cannot get anyone to see anything wrong with it.” ~Catherine MacKinnon

"As far as I’m concerned, men are the product of a damanged gene." ~Germaine Greer

“The nuclear family must be destroyed, and people must find better ways of living together…. Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process…. No woman should have to deny herself any opportunities because of her special responsibilities to her children… Families will be finally destroyed only when a revolutionary social and economic organization permits people’s needs for love and security to be met in ways that do not impose divisions of labor, or any external roles, at all.”

~Linda Gordon

“Men’s sexuality is mean and violent, and men so powerful that they can ‘reach WITHIN women to fuck/construct us from the inside out.’ Satan-like, men possess women, making their wicked fantasies and desires women’s own. A woman who has sex with a man, therefore, does so against her will, ‘even if she does not feel forced.’

~Judith Levine

miramiraonthewall · Answer

No. I think feminism got a bad name because sexism is deeply rooted into our cultural psyche and both men and women are uncomfortable with the level of dismantling power that we fight for. People have hated feminism since the first feminist acts. Its comical when todays anti-feminists think they're special. Same noise, different era. People in general are quite ignorant, along with the fact that they fear the shift in power. Like any other suggestion of changing power (racism, classism/capitalism), it scares the absolute fuck out of people and opposition has very little to do with any minority who actually hate men.

Look at all the mist beloved systems that actively destroy peoples lives an encourage hate and oppression - racism, military state/imperialism, religion, etc. These are beloved and respected and have encouraged and accomplished far more destruction and hatefulness than any random feminist who hates men. Even the feminist who hates men has far better intentions, yet she won't accomplish nearly as much influence nearly as easily. So you can see that being opposed to something (here, feminism) doesn't automatically mean there's any significant, objective basis for that opposition. We have to further analyze to prove that, and this requires a lot more intellectual work.

This is actually how power works in practice. The most effective level of power are systems that maintain themselves. They require and rely on people defending those systems on every level, having internalized the desired and exemplified paradigm since childhood and enacting it on a subconscious level. Power that doesn't accomplish that would be too easy to unravel and therefore ineffective. This is all just power doing what its supposed to do, just like every other expression of power. Feminists know this and are unfazed. We just keep fighting from generation to generation, chipping away at whatever we can because the fight is important to us. But let's be absolutely clear - we have always been hated. This is literally nothing at all new.

worldscolide · Answer

The following is why feminism has a bad name

I feel that ‘man-hating’ is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. Robin Morgan, Ms. Magazine Editor
The nuclear family must be destroyed… Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process. Linda Gordon
I want to see a man beaten to a bloody pulp with a high-heel shoved in his mouth, like an apple in the mouth of a pig. Andrea Dworkin
Since marriage constitutes slavery for women, it is clear that the women’s movement must concentrate on attacking this institution. Freedom for women cannot be won without the abolition of marriage. Sheila Cronin, the leader of the feminist organization NOW
Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Andrea Dworkin
The institution of sexual intercourse is anti-feminist. Ti-Grace Atkinson
Rape is nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear. Susan Brownmiller, Against Our Will p.6
When a woman reaches ****** with a man she is only collaborating with the patriarchal system, eroticizing her own oppression. Sheila Jeffrys
Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated. Catherine MacKinnon
The more famous and powerful I get the more power I have to hurt men. Sharon Stone
Ninety-five percent of women’s experiences are about being a victim. Or about being an underdog, or having to survive… women didn’t go to Vietnam and blow things up. They are not Rambo. Jodie Foster, quoted in The New York Times Magazine
The proportion of men must be reduced to and maintained at approximately 10% of the human race. Sally Miller Gearhart, in The Future – If There Is One – Is Female
And if the professional rapist is to be separated from the average dominant heterosexual (male), it may be mainly a quantitative difference. Susan Griffin, Rape: The All-American Crime
If life is to survive on this planet, there must be a decontamination of the Earth. I think this will be accompanied by an evolutionary process that will result in a drastic reduction of the population of males. Mary Daly
If anyone is prosecuted for filing a false report, then victims of real attacks will be less likely to report them. David Angier
Men who are unjustly accused of rape can sometimes gain from the experience. Catherine Comins

BlueCoyote · Answer

Feminism got a bad name because of far-right propaganda that has been throwing mud at this movement now for years. I constantly see people online cry about evil, men-hating feminists. In reality, these men-haters are a tiny, insignificant minority. I am a feminist myself and I know plenty of people in real life (men and women) who call themselves feminists and not a single one of them hates men. They are all very kind, peaceful and conciliable people.
Unfortunately however, the far-right has a well-oiled propaganda machine that has brainwashed people into believing all kinds of idiotic bullshit. It the same with refugees for instance. Everyone these days has an opinion on refugees and most of these opinions are very hostile. Supposedly, refugees are violent criminals who refuse to adapt and don't speak a single word of the local language. Interestingly enough, most regular people have never met a single refugee in their entire life, let alone made the effort to properly get to know one.

blessed_curse · Answer

I'm actually scared to call myself a 'feminist' because people then automatically label me as man-hating selfish bitch. Feminism as an ideology is something all can support but I agree there are some women out there who are crazy, man-hating.. they penalize men for things they did ages ago. BUT there are also people who hate feminists who are genuinely doing good for the women in our world, and generalize them into the FEMINAZI category because they cannot handle the fact that they speak up and do not take shit from anyone.

passinby · Answer

Feminism is exactly what it is represented as by the feminazis, radical feminists, misandrists, man-haters, liberals, and etc. Feminism is a mental illness that seems to be spreading like an airborne cancerous-virus broadcasted through the media and implemented by unknowing ignorant useful-idiot underling women. The ease of life in this automated world allows too much free time for the wandering libtard-feminist mind and it mutates into these bizarre ideals that have no foundation and no realistic endgame. Artificial female superiority enforced by the government breeds tremendous contempt with future grave consequences.

AlphaGhost · Answer

WAGE GAP MAY EXIST CUZ CALIBER GAP EXIST
Man are usually man enough to understand the problem and try to work on it by working hard (for normal people) and multitasking (to take advantage of their higher IQ).
Woman on the other hand have inherent (Biological) problem of not accepting the fault but they try to make it as society fault that don't pay them equally.
I am not female hater but NOBODY WILL PAY YOU EQUAL FOR ONLY QUARTER OF OUTPUT (work performed on day) and EVERYONE WILL PICK A HUMAN THAT WILL DO DOUBLE IN SAME PRICE without drama of continues sexual harassment and even FORCING OLDER WORKERS TO LEAVE.
If someone hire you work, HE HIRED YOU work not attack the male staff 24/7.

hellionthesagereborn · Answer

No, feminist got a bad name because in order to be a feminist you have to be a misandrist. Their is literally no other way to be a feminist. You cannot say men raped and beat and enslaved and oppressed women for all of history (provably false by the way as is every claim I've ever heard a feminist make (and they make a LOT of claims)) and then claim that you don't hate men. If your a feminist, you despise men and that's just what it is. that's why they keep attacking men destroying their lives oppressing them and lobbing for ever more rights for women (who already have all the rights) and fewer rights for men (who are fast losing any semblance of human rights).

Eva323 · Answer

I used to agree totally with you, but then I realized how perfectly things were built before feminism. I do think that some of the causes feminists have taken up we’re okay, but we didn’t need feminism for that. The pilgrims wrote law that said rape was punishable by death. Overall I wish the feminist movement hadn’t existed to begin with. I think that makes me a card carrying member of “the patriarchy” but, whatever. I also don’t think that the government should have enough influence for this to matter at all. We should’ve kept it local. Then you could leave the bullshit behind you.

Cammy137 · Answer

No, I think pushing false information as fact and limiting the value of other people's opinions is what gave feminism a bad name. The wage gap is a myth that was debunked immediately and yet people still bring it up in conversation. The pink tax is possibly the most idiotic concept ever to exist, beaten only perhaps by the flat earth theory. Manspreading, mansplaining, false rape and sexual abuse statistics... all of these things is what has given feminism a bad name.
The sad thing is that for a while it was just feminazis who were to blame and for the most part, people were willing to accept that they didn't represent feminism but now, i mean very level-headed feminists who still spew out all this bogus information and then say that because I'm a man I can't have an opinion, even if what I'm trying to say isn't actually an opinion but rather a fact.

MrOracle · Answer

First and second-wave feminism were legit (though I'm sure there were a handful of crazies in the mix too), but like much in the 60s, the feminist movement got co-opted by Soviet agents (and US sympathizers) who were looking to undermine the US by destroying the family unit, and did so by subversion - teaching women that "men are evil" and that all their problems were because of men.

This might sound insane if you don't know a lot about the Cold War, but there have been at least 3 high-level former-KGB defectors who have discussed this specifically. They note that the KGB only dedicated 15% of their budget towards spying - 85% was spent on subversion, which was seen as a far more powerful way for them to negatively impact the US.

Needless to say, they also heavily infiltrated the education system, particularly in college, where much of 3rd Wave Feminism and Red Stockings come from.

Chaz269 · Answer

Maybe, but I don't think so.
I'm of the "actions speak louder than words" camp. No matter how much you try to dance around it, the truth is simple: no prominent feminist or feminist organization has ever fought for men's rights or women's responsibilities, ever. Yet, they claim to be about equality. Well, true equality is about equal rights and equal responsibilities. As far as feminists are concerned, equality is about women's rights and men's responsibilities. Until they demonstrate an understanding of that and commit to amending their ways, they'll always be selfish, man-hating hypocrites as far as I'm concerned. Fortunately, I'm not alone.

BCA6010 · Answer

Try starting a social revolution by calling yourself a "misandrist" and see how far that gets. It doesn't even sound appealing before knowing what it actually means.

Yes, the vast majority of the SJWs campaigning as a "feminist" are doing more harm than good in the name of rights, and their actions are probably going to permanently taint the word "feminism."

It isn't about equality anymore- that's been the norm at least in the United States for quite some time. Now it's just about special treatment, and dividing/weakening the population through unrest.

ausmaster · Answer

Well, I have no problem with a girl saying to other girls, "Girls we can fucking do this. Lets do it" as long as what they're doing isn't like.. hating on men or illegal shit of course. But encouraging women to be good people or something like that, I don't mind at all. And honestly, yeah. I didn't know about that word until now, I rather start using that word because bitches like Anita Sarkeesian don't even deserve to be a part of the group that paved the way for Women's rights 50 years ago. I rather start loving real feminists like Christina Hoff Summers. I respect and admire that woman.

jellyroo · Answer

There is no law who gets to call themselves a feminist.
My main issue is that modern feminism as a whole tends to disregard men (unless it suits their own agenda, like gender roles), while simultaneously insisting they're all about equality.

I don't buy it!

Anonymous · Answer

Feminism got a bad name due to corruption within its own movement that feminist themselves went along with and didn't try fighting against. If feminists would speak up and out against misandrists in their movement and loudly maybe feminism could have saved itself. Though all I see is feminists calling men misogynists for disagreeing with misandrists on some things or for calling themselves egalitarians over feminists.

Feminism is basically misandrism in many cases now a days but they can't call their movement misandrism because then they'll lose all their government funding and whatever platform they have for speaking,

ThatItalianBastard · Answer

I agree with you on that part. I find it very hard to get behind the feminist movement and the idea's they push because when I look at the organization I see a lot of people acting as misandrists towards others.

I'd personally like to live in a world where there is a level of fairness between both men and woman. Where the problems on both sides of the playing field are addressed and taken care of rather then one side being dominant in the game.

Which is mainly why I follow egalitarianism. Not feminism.

Guanfei · Answer

Except the problem is that those misandrists are today's feminists.
They're the one leading the movement, saying what it should do, against who, where to go, what to say...
They're the one in charge. Feminism didn't get a bad name because of them. They changed it to be what they wanted to. The other feminists are like old veterans remembering what it was in their time, back then. Which it's not today.
If you want to give it a good name, well take over it and boot those bitches out. I've heard they're not real feminists, they're just a minority. Well then where are the others? The "true" feminists? What are they waiting for to clean feminism from them?
That is, if there are feminists wanting to clean the movement, and who don't agree with the hysterical bitches. Because for now, the later are pretty free to do whatever they want and no one tries to stop them.

EnglishArtsteacher · Answer

Yes, and I've mentioned this so many times before. The only true forms of Feminism were the First, and Second Wave.

Third-Wave "Feminism" is basically a group of jealous white women who want to cherry-pick what rights they want. It's a complete joke, and even many women make fun of it.

ashleyb93 · Answer

Absolutely. But I think their hatred of men stems from a place of self hatred. They dont feel pretty, skinny or smart enough for society's high standards and instead of working through their feelings and rejecting that standard they get angry and blame others for their inner turmoil

Kenni · Answer

Yes and no. Yes because feminism definitely includes some women who are for equality in every way, but no because the name itself "feminism " does not include both gender, so how can that be equality? Being an egalitarian is what describes best how I feel.

TheHelleri · Answer

It didn't get a bad name; so much as it never had a good name to begin with. It didn't need misandrists and Marxists to infiltrate it in order to poison it. It was toxic from the start. It's accomplished nothing wholly positive. Actual progression has not come from feminism but from the advancement of technology which has lifted the burden of women's biological constraints (though feminism takes credit for the good things it had nothing to do with).

MlleCake · Answer

I have found there to be very little total misandry within feminism. It has always been the trope of the status quo to call all feminism misandry, and all righteous indignation or anger as hate. Women are deservedly angry about ways in which the patriarchy continues to keep women in a second class status. We aren't obligated to be nice about it, or sit quietly waiting to be heard.

Feminism "got a bad name" the moment a woman first asserted that she wasn't a doormat.

ManFrom1982 · Answer

Most definitely. It's more of a branding problem that's come with some of the goals of the Third Wave and especially with the integration of intersectionality, which may be the most divisive philosophy of social science ever when applied to it's logical end.

Anonymous · Answer

I bet most here don't know where feminism came from or how it got started. It got its start from a banker and his classmate in order to destabilize and cut the population which it has done exactly that, that's why the system setup against men and men aren't part of the family unit anymore. Non coincidentally that's how the age of consent came along too. The age of consent laws aren't Christina laws at all, you won't find one reference to age consent laws anywhere in the Christian bible. They are feminist eugenicist driven laws in order to curve and control the population. It's working very well too because population is disappearing especially among whites.

Stoner710 · Answer

Yes, The main femmist you see are the femmist Nazi on tv in the street protesting and it gives femmist and bad name,

It make people think these women are crazy why would we listain to them. Honestly I think there need to be a clean up of the Femmist movement and get the radicals out of it, and go back to the 1960 versions of femmisism and not this new 3rd wave

SkipStop · Answer

Finally, a girl who understands 😘
Yup. Feminism = Misandry. Same goes for the definition of democrats and liberals. Same groups trying to cover up their real identity as misandristic groups. I wish there was a way ordinary people can get this word to go viral.

WeirdCinderella · Answer

Well wanting equality between men and women shouldn't be a reason to hate men according to me. Hating men and saying you're feminist is in my opinion like being islamist and telling the world you're Muslim (sorry about the topic, I'm not trying to open a hatred debate towards Muslim or anything)

princessfromjupiter · Answer

Absolutely. Then again those misandrists are actually in the minority and I think as a society we shouldn’t be stupidly blinded by them just because they scream the loudest.

TonyMetal86 · Answer

I'm an anti feminist and don't believe in women's rights the way they are these days...

I prefer the 50's lifestyle but add to it that women have the choice to work if they want to but a man is a man and a woman is a woman...

NeglectedChild · Answer

I just think it's an incredibly flawed ideology. And it's largely misunderstood.

Not saying women shouldn't have rights fyi. Saying feminism is simply that "women are equal" is an oversimplification and a misunderstanding of the feminist exposition, which is an assortment of varying ideas. Which is why you find so much conflict, contention and disharmony.

Just_A_Guy2018 · Answer

60+ years of Kill all men, men are rapist, women do not need men, bull crap has taken its toll. Men are turning their backs on you. You hav ebeen screaming at men to leave you alone, so okay, we will.

Anonymous · Answer

Yes, feminism has a bad name and is so politically charged with misandry that it needs to be changed to something else.

The problem is the radicals have been making their way into the mainstream. They used to be limited to college campuses but now you see them influencing mass media, public education, entertainment and local politics.

I support equal rights, don't get me wrong. But these women need to quit playing the victim card. Victimization might sometimes buy you sympathy but never true respect.

The problem I have with feminism is it tends to throw ALL men under the bus. Most of us are not rapists, pigs, misogynists, etc. But when you start call an otherwise decent guy that you are going to push him in the opposite direction.

Anonymous · Answer

No. I think feminism got a bad name from a certain breed of man shrieking constantly about how unfair it is that we expect to be treated like people and that they no longer have the advantages they once used to.

Same kind of man who sits down and cries about how unfair affirmative action is, tbh.

acstyles · Answer

True. It's all about equality between men and women because we're all human, not about killing all men and making a new planet full of women. It's about letting women reach higher levels of society not about how to free your nipples on the street and complaining why men get horny if they see you. Feminists now a day are idiots not feminists

pleasestopthis · Answer

Yes!! It's quite embarrasing for me when I get to talk to such women. They actually don't want want to be treated as equals, they want a special treatment and only talk about feminism when it's convenient.

Aiko_E_Lara · Answer

Actually feminism is supposed to be misandry and masculism or chauvinism is misogyny. What is their point of calling themselves a feminist? Are they saying women are superior to men? We don't claim men are superior to women nowadays so there's no need for you to call yourself a feminist.

Virus_and_error · Answer

Yeah. In a way you're completely right. But generally this behaviour comes from female feminist who thinks that all male prove themself as superior and thinks women are not at their level, they're weak. But there are males who are also feminist, so I don't think all men have the same old patriarchal mindset. World is changing, I guess for me it's changing

JordanDavis · Answer

I think a big part of the controversy is that feminism doesn't mean just one thing. Different people mean very different things by the word "feminism". I've heard a lot of people criticize feminism, but when I ask them why they describe something totally different than the feminism some of my female friends believe in.

A-man-22 · Answer

Yes and nowadays it's not just a bad name. They grew unchecked and now many of the members of Feminism are misandristic.

This should be an example to everyone, if you make a movement make an effort to stop people from saying they are from your group but doing another thing.

Anonymous · Answer

No, because feminism = misandry. Its literally the same thing. The original first wave feminism ran its course, women are not only equal nowadays, but are far more benefited in the western society than men are. Yet feminism is now raging more than ever.

devilish-cutie · Answer

no, its cause men would find any reason they can to discredit feminism and what women are trying to achieve to change society when its mistreating women
men haters are not majority; most men just like the way things were before

WhitePanther88 · Answer

Yeah. It's not about equality anymore it's about special treatment, victim status and a weapon to beat men over the head with for personal advancement.

ronaldo75 · Answer

Misandry and very smarmy "you go girl" bullshit is a huge part of why feminism has fallen out of favor with so many people. It's a noble cause but it's really gotten out of hand. This kavanaugh mess in the USA was the beginning of the end for SJWs and feminism. There's a good chance the Republicans will get majority vote during the mid-terms.

Barrabus_the_Free · Answer

No, it has ALWAYS been about hating and envying men. Read what feminazis from 50+ years ago had to say, it's pretty obvious that it's always been a hate movement.

sawno · Answer

Yes without a doubt, its been co-opted by marxist tribal ideology where its girls above all. Instead it should be a movement thst aids women in there life once they had equal rights rather then bringing men down.

Celtero · Answer

No, feminism has intrinsically turned misandrist because before women were unequal by law, now they're equal, so the only thing they're really trying to change is men's treatment of women, which implies men are treating them poorly.

taleswapper · Answer

No, it's inherent, I'm afraid. "Feminism" is about striving for equality, yes, but ONLY by empowering women. That's sexist. Indeed, the very word makes it obvious that's it's not about equality, but about supporting women.

Anonymous · Answer

Well until you make an official authority on feminism there's going to be no real definition and anyone can call themselves feminist and just because you think you're "the good ones" doesn't mean you actually are. Everyone thinks they are one of "the good ones."

Ally100percent · Answer

YES! I actually posted a question about this a while back. I wish thatpeople were able to see the difference!

SarahsSummer · Answer

I'm not a feminist per se and dont really see the need in today's western society but to answer your question I think feminism may have gotten a bad name from misandrists stating feminists hate men.

CubsterShura · Answer

Men complain about being called rapists because of a few jerks, followed by the fact that some Feminazis ruined Feminism so we should rather call ourselves Egalitarian. I am done with this world.

lilaqua · Answer

I think it's got more to do with the public appropriating academia and misconstruing it. I honestly think feminism in developed countries should stay within those bounds for the most part.

Anonymous · Answer

Feminism from the very beginning was bad, instead of peaceful protests, they were murdering people who didn't agree with them, they bombed buildings and set people on fire. They also shamed young boys into the arm by the way of the white feather campaign.

ATuairiscean · Answer

There is definitely a branch of Misandrists alright but I wouldn't tar whole lot with same brush it would be like saying all concerned men about this are purely misogynistic

ConnieS · Answer

Maybe they were feminists before but were hurt by so many men that they developed into "men-hating" feminists.

abc3643 · Answer

Yes. Female misandrists in that "blame the penis" mindset are what have primarily caused the backlash.

cassandraa · Answer

Feminism lost it's meaning in the u. s. and a few other countries due to people ruining it's reputation

Juxtapose · Answer

If you were for equality, you'd call yourself an egalitarian. Feminists are just concerning themselves with female supremacy and the subjugation of men.

WhoDatGuy · Answer

It definitely has a negative association now. But I believe in Western society women have more power then men. If feminists are do keen they should focus on certain countries where women are the under belly.

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