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I admit I am no expert on either feminism or the men’s rights movement, but…

It seems to me that while advocating almost exclusively for women, feminism has publicly presented itself as THE movement for gender equality.

Then when men came forward with their problems and their experiences of sexism they were either dismissed as “privileged males” or told “if you care about men, then start your own movement.”

Now that the men’s rights movement is growing and drawing more attention, feminism is backpedaling and saying “Men don’t need their own movement; feminism is for everyone.” Except they still refuse to listen to male voices unless they adhere strictly to feminist theory.

IMO either feminism needs to rebrand itself as the “women’s rights movement” instead of the “gender equality movement” or start listening to men too, and re-evaluate things like patriarchy theory and privilege.

Anything else is either willful ignorance on the order of religious fanaticism, or blatant hypocrisy.