qwertyuiasdfghjk answered:

Feminism is a movement for women by women. Men will never understand what it is like to be a woman.

Men who call themselves feminists and reap the benefits of being seen as “so caring,” or an “activist,” and at worse get laughed at and called some creative word for vagina from some loser dudes. I have it known I’m a feminist, and I get talked down and anger-baited to by men, I get violence/rape threats from men, I get fucked with all around by men (and fuck’s sakes I’m just a feminine white girl in a relationship with a man — consider how lesbian feminists get treated in comparison to me, gender non-conforming feminists, black feminists, etc).

And guess how many “feminist men” have ever physically been around to stick up for me against their fellow men? 0.

Guess how many “feminist men” I’ve ever seen speak up about misogyny in general unless they know they get to come out of the conversation looking the woman-loving, intellectually superior hero? 0.

Men time and time again fuck up feminist spaces by speaking over women, making women uncomfortable, denouncing the importance of issues they know nothing about due to absolutely no experience with it, and wasting women’s time by condescendingly asking very basic questions that are best left to Google and independent reading.

The answer really should be as simple as “feminism is for women by women, and men are not women.”

I’m sick of the depoliticization of the word “feminist.” It should not be on the same level as calling yourself an animal-lover or a bicyclist.