I mean this comes off as why isn’t there a C for Cis or S for Straight in LGBTQ+? Shouldn’t they represent all genders/sexual expression? Isn’t it about equality and rights for all genders?! To be clear, I find that stance ridiculous.

Just because straight people are left out of the movement’s title doesn’t mean LGBTQ+ theory is advocating for superiority over straight/cis people, which is kind of your unspoken argument here for the “poor branding” of feminism.

And if you’re looking for the overarching term for all of this. It’s Gender Studies or Gender Equality. Always has been.

Feminism is a field of study not just a movement and it has vastly different interpretations. Liberal feminism and radical feminism are perhaps the most visible and mainstream but that doesn’t come close to all of feminism theory out there.

Feminism is very much meant to be, a criticism of, and in opposition to the patriarchy or male dominated social structures. Hence why “fem” is frontline and center. While cis-men are victims of the patriarchy in nuanced ways they are not its primary victims, and certainly not victims to the same degree as women and LGBTQ+ individuals. And pretending they are to onboard allies is a bit of a slap in the face and a watering down of feminism itself.

That’s definitely an interesting response because most feminists, at least online that I’ve spoken to about it, say that they fundamentally agree and believe that all people should be treated equally by default and yet will also post things like “kill all men” or other things about how women should be given special treatment unironically.

It ends up at some level being hypocritical, and hypocrisy is intolerable from thought leaders.

Yeah, this sounds like a pretty common slander arguement, and certainly a use of hyperbole. You’ve seen some memes from some self proclaimed feminist accounts so all of the established feminist literature and established discourse means nothing.

And if you repeat it enough it magically becomes true. You don’t have to experience it first hand anymore because there’s a dozen accounts repeating it and they’ve all had the same exact first hand magical experience you did.

So, disregard women who are actually active in feminist circles and disregard academic critiques and established discourse. Your account and a dozen others repeating the same is clearly a better gauge. Not like bots and bad faith arguments aren’t running rampant.

It’s not slander if it’s true.

I mean, I get what you are saying, but I feel like you’re overlooking my lived experience.

The discourse online is there are an enormous number of feminists who post “men are trash, etc.” get hundreds and thousands of upvotes and reposts.

There are people who have made their entire career off of talking about how trash men are.

I don’t like that.