I went through the FAQ of the AskFeminists subreddit, and found that most of the points and answers are very reasonable. There were just a few exceptions, e.g. mansplaining or manspreading. Reasonable people who hear about mansplaining will just stop taking feminists seriously at that point. Do I think many men like to sit with legs apart when they have room for it? Sure, I think they do, I don't doubt that! But 95% of them will close their legs when someone approaches to sit next to them, and of those who did not, 4.9% will close their legs when they're asked to. So yeah, basically making a deal about that 0.1%, which women probably come across once in every 5 years. Must be making their lives so miserable that this has to be part of their agenda!
Anyway, this didn't discourage me to read further, neither did any other agenda. What really turned me off was their hostility against people or groups who never really gave any reasons for it:
E.g. they call Jordan Peterson a grifter with nonsensical ideas. However, they never explaining why. Of course they don't give any explanation, because it would be hard for them to argue with logic.
And finally: The Men's Rights Movement and it's subreddit. They are "largely a misogynist, reactionary movement dedicated to hating women and feminism". What else would they be, right? In this day and age, the feminist winning strategy is just to blatantly call everything and everybody misogynistic who they don't like for whatever reason. It's cheap and easy. Like false accusations: Yeah, lets just accuse them with misogyny without any reason. We don't need to back it up, because #BelieveAllWomen! Imagine calling the AskFeminists subreddit a misandrist group FOR NO REASON. The wrath of womanist gods would make grown m*n cry with agony, and regret they were born their gender.
Anyway, and then they finish with: "Most feminists would like to see a male-centered group that doesn't make blaming women and feminism for all men's problems its focus." Yeah, with manspreading being one of the feminist agenda, this last sentence definitely didn't sound hypocritical at all. Also, just to mention 3 examples: the many suicide-, war-, or work-related deaths of men. Yeah, these are part of all men's problems that we are constantly blaming on women or feminism non-stop /s
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