We don't need men to protect women! We can protect ourselves!

Feminists, however, do think women need to be protected. That's why they always exaggerate statistics about how prevalent violence against women is, only pay exclusive attention to female victims of violence, portray every woman as a damsel in distress who worries 24/7 about being raped/murdered while ignoring the majority of violence and murder victims who are men. They see themselves as the paternalistic protecters of women.

Women should not be forced to marry early, become mothers or stay at home. Let's allow them to do what they want!

Feminists don't really think this. They say they think women should be able to go to college, get an education, and not have kids or never settle down, but they actually impose new expectations. They discourage women from marrying in their early 20s because they believe in the "brain doesn't develop until 25" myth, even though evidence has shown that marrying in the early 20s or even late teens doesn't inherently cause divorce or marital problems. They tell women they don't have to marry, sure, but they encourage them to wait until they're at least 25.

They actually have an EXPECTATION that women go to college at 18-21, get a college degree, and focus on getting a prestigious white-collar job or something and that they should make their own money. If she's not interested in marriage or career or wants to marry in early adulthood, then she's a "victim" of patriarchy or is taking "risks" before her "brain develops".

A lot of evidence has shown that women aren't interested in STEM inherently and that's why even in countries progressive for women like Sweden, women are underrepresented in many STEM fields, but feminists actually expect women, despite many not wanting to be in STEM, to join STEM for the sake of "equality".

Feminists want to normalize women not wearing bras instead of just saying whatever fuck it it's their decision to decide. We shouldn't normalize wearing it or not wearing it. Let her decide. They also wanna normalize women being just as interested in casual sex as men, but don't realize that women aren't less willing to admit they're into casual sex. Many just aren't as into it as men, and this is true regardless of sexual orientation, country, or how safe she feels. So it's not due to sexual orientation, socialization or gender roles or worries about being raped. It's due to the male libido being spontaneous and based on release, and the female libido being more responsive and intimate.

Also, they infantilize young women between 18-22, and call them "children" or "young girls" (totally sexist language, feminists) when they date a man even just a few years older, and treat them as a bunch of little kids who cannot have responsibilities to make their own decisions. They believe if he's more than 4 years older, he's automatically a rapist by default, even though age gaps weren't linked to abuse.

Feminists don't want to liberate women from gender roles. They wanna create new, modern ones to force upon them. Instead of that, why don't we give them free will on whether they wanna go to grad school and be white-collar workers or become a married mother at age 20. Feminists are being just as traditional as old-school traditionalists, they just have new traditional gender roles they created, because going to college at 18-21, marrying after 30, and having a college-degree-required job is a new tradition and expectation for us all now.