17 here. All through my life, I've believed in treating women with as much respect as any other guy. I've never believed in treating each sex equally though. Like I'd never flirt with a guy (I'm straight btw) and I'm just gentler with girls.

Bit then my first experience with feminism was negative to say the least. One of the teachers at my school was what she called a feminist. But what she believed in is not nearly the same feminism that, say /r/askwomen, believe in. She honestly believed that males are inferior; that we shouldn't hold open doors for women; that the friendzone is real, and it's a creation by males to ban undesirable females to; and then she turned around and said that the friendzone isn't real, that it's a fictitious creation by males to justify their undesirablility.

So I really started to hate feminism. I mean, all my life I thought that both sexes deserve equal respect, but here she was yaking away about how to subjugate men (I guess as "payback" for all those years that women were (and still are to some extent) treated as inferior). And then all that time she could've been teaching us. This was an AP (college-level) class after all! (As an aside: luckily I could get tutoring from the other AP teacher for this subject, and I got a 4 ("well qualified") out of 5, which is what most of his students got; most of my teacher's students got 2's ("not qualified") and 3's ("possibly qualified"))

But, after stumbling upon TBP, I realized that feminism isn't nearly as bad as whatever my teacher seemed to believe in (and constantly preached about). It's sad because that's now how the majority of my school sees feminism. And now there's a great divide (mostly between the two genders: the girls think that all the guys are just out to bed them, and the guys think that all the girls are out to make them slaves or something).

Ex-terps, what do think of people like this? Are they what caused you to become red-pillers in the first place?

PS: sorry if I didn't get some of the lingo right; I'm kinda new to both sides of the argument. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit: so, much to my relief, this isn't even feminism at all. See meceru's top-level comment below