What are some major lies and myths pushed by feminism?

No_Reaction_2168 · 2025-11-08T20:24:16+00:00

That it's for both men and women. I do not hear feminists ever speak of men's issues and our rights exclusively when they speak about women and their rights all the time.

Vast_Revenue5545 · 2025-11-08T21:05:05+00:00

That men are the only perpetrators of domestic violence

bulimic_squid · 2025-11-08T21:17:57+00:00

That it "helps everyone".

It definitely doesn't.

DrewYetti · 2025-11-08T20:42:19+00:00

Women have been oppressed by men for centuries when really they were protected and men were disposable.

Worldly-Force7505 · 2025-11-08T19:05:37+00:00

The idea that women are the primary victims of violence. Misogyny has historically been rampant in America, or that misogyny is pervasive among men. The wage gap is caused by systemic discrimination against women.

liferelationshi · 2025-11-09T02:01:24+00:00

Everything out of their mouth

63daddy · 2025-11-08T20:43:38+00:00

That we live in a patriarchy that oppresses women.

That feminism promotes gender equality (when feminist organizations have continually lobbied for and won laws and practices advantaging women over men).

That women have less agency than men.

That 1:4 college women are raped.

That domestic violence is initiated primarily by women (feminist Duluth model) when in fact many studies show women initiate more DV than men.

That the gender pay gap compares equal work between men and women (it’s comparing of median earnings, not the same work).

That women were universally denied the right to vote prior to 1920. (The 19th amendment was passed in 1920, but that doesn’t mean no women voted prior to that. In fact there were women who voted in colonial America, and several states passed non discrimination voting laws prior to 1920)

That women couldn’t bank prior to the 1970s. (In reality there were entire women only banks in the 1800s)

That women are at greater risk of being assaulted or murdered (men are much more likely).

That women are the largest victims of war.

That only 2% of rape accusations are false. (Nobody knows for sure what the false accusation rate is, but it’s clearly far, far higher than that).

LateralThinker13 · 2025-11-09T01:50:13+00:00

What are some major lies and myths pushed by feminism?

Everything they stand for. Want proof? Just ask them to debate ANY of their positions; they can't, will call you names, and storm off.

If they DO debate, it inevitably descends into emotions and "Well *I* feel like" statements of opinion. They cannot and will not engage with objective facts; in fact, they are rooted in postmodernism, which rejects even the concept of objective facts.

No, Feminism is a RELIGION. As such, it has dogma, apostasy, and leadership that cannot be questioned. Don't argue with feminists, just remove them from your life as the mentally ill people that they are.

EDIT: I won't even get into the number of influential feminists who were either eugenicists, pedophiles, or rabid lesbian separatists. NONE of those are valuable to the continuation of the human species.

jcd_real · 2025-11-08T21:37:04+00:00

The idea that "feminism is for everybody" when the movement has a long history of transphobia, racism, and misandry.

The idea that "false rape accusations aren't a problem" when false rape accusations are a weapon against outgroup males, with 60% of exonerees being Black.

The idea that "1 in 4 women are raped," which was pushed by women who didn't even believe that it is possible for men to be raped. This one is particularly troubling because women are the majority of teachers, and at least two famous feminists (bell hooks and Simone de Beauvoir) had sex with their students.

adam-l · 2025-11-08T22:12:23+00:00

"Feminism is the radical idea that women are adults" is not one.

Iriltlirl · 2025-11-09T14:03:32+00:00

That discrimination on the basis of gender in women's favor is a type of discrimination that hurts nobody and helps everyone.

Jazzlike-Yak-3242 · 2025-11-08T20:02:05+00:00

That it’s progressive.

A society that can no longer replace itself from within is the polar opposite. Is progress just the women being able to indulge in themselves as much as possible until more fertile and family oriented cultures have to be brought in for the continuity of the civilization? I doubt it.

Which_Ad_3917 · 2025-11-08T19:15:21+00:00

That the patriarchy is something that has ever existed. Yes the Greeks and Romans were patriarchal, but as far as we know the Hittites weren’t, the Ancient Egyptians weren’t, England never has been. We know of major atrocities committed by female leaders in all these cultures and yet, somehow throughout all of human history women have been oppressed. Hitler had a wife. Bibi has a wife. The orange man has a trophy wife. Are they innocent bystanders? Oh please. These women are very happy where they are. They sustain the so called patriarchy. Whatever oppression you want to talk about, including the oppression of women, must take women’s role in it into account, period.

Wololo2502 · 2025-11-09T07:30:14+00:00

That women earn less for equal work.

Specialist_Most_7338 · 2025-11-09T14:13:28+00:00

That men are the oppressor class.

Dependent-Match4726 · 2025-11-09T06:06:40+00:00

There are lots, but recent one is that women who knowingly date/marry/support bigoted men are just "victims" who are "brainwashed" by the "patriarchal expectations" placed upon them.

IntrepidDifference84 · 2025-11-09T22:33:16+00:00

“Equality”

Angryasfk · 2025-11-09T14:58:19+00:00

Wow. What an ENORMOUS SCOPE this question has.

There’s so many things feminism has pushed that are misleading or plain wrong. But basically the truth is this: feminism relies on half truths, exaggerations, and misinformation. Even when they have a point, they don’t stick to it, but have to turn it into an actual lie.

Examples?

Men have been voting for centuries: Truth, hardly any men have. Before 1800 it was essentially the wealthiest 3% of men. There were some exceptions. There was a very brief enfranchisement after the French Revolution. But that was rapidly reversed. And there were the “pot boiler” electorates in Britain - but it was pure luck to be in one. And in any event they had the same say in Parliament as the ones with far more limited franchise. The Italian City State republics were controlled by Guilds. And even Ancient Athens was quite restricted. Slaves and “foreigners” (and these could be free men who’d lived there for several generations) had no vote either.

Universal male suffrage didn’t really start to kick in until the middle of the 19th century. And so women voting wasn’t that far behind universal male suffrage. About 40 to 50 years in places like Australia and the US. About 10 years in Britain (it was about 35 years between most men and most women voting there). It was only in France where it was close to 100 years. And Switzerland of course, although I’m fairly sure no one’s going to bag Switzerland.

Another feminist lie is the “women couldn’t get bank accounts before the ‘70’s”. This seems to have started from misunderstanding the Equal Credit Act of 1974, which forbade banks from requiring husbands to countersign their wives credit card application forms. It confuses credit cards with bank accounts; fails to understand how hard credit was to obtain prior to “deregulation” in the ‘80’s; and is clearly designed to make young women “angry”. And it’s not true. But seems impervious to facts.

And the most obvious one is the “gender pay gap” misrepresentation.

There plenty of other feminist lies, misrepresentation, and myths. You could write a multivolume book about it. But what bothers me is that feminists seem to do this all the time. It is true that in the past (that “ill defined” time before today) that women had less public freedom of action than a man of her same socioeconomic status. But apparently this is not enough for feminists. They must without fail exaggerate and substitute made up garbage for the truth to build on this every single time.

And the final point is this. Feminists (with some very notable exceptions) are incapable of admitting there is ever any aspect of life where women have it better than men.

Women always have it worse - the Hillary Clinton claim. That is the core of feminism!

Specialist_Load_9953 · 2025-11-11T08:48:42+00:00

Presenting 98% of rape is committed by men when in all but every instance, non-consensual penetration by a penis is required to be considered rape, so only men can commit rape.

Presenting domestic violence as a gendered crime by using simple arrest statistics; ignoring gender bias of arresting officers, bilateral violence and the Duluth model.

Presenting the uncontrolled gender wage gap as the controlled wage gap.

… to name a few.

Njaulv · 2025-11-12T05:37:17+00:00

Well I have seen women in professional sports get toasted and complain. Feminism teaching men and women are strong in every way.

Technical_Joke7180 · 2025-11-08T23:26:05+00:00

Everyday in this sub there are a bunch of clickbaity sounding posts that I think are written by bots.

Which would make sense as MGTOW was brigaded in the same way before it's downfall

Zhezersheher · 2025-11-13T00:50:02+00:00

That women need to be empowered. That women are superior to men. That women are victims and oppressed. That being a woman automatically makes them valuable.

Title	What are some major lies and myths pushed by feminism?
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Date	November 8, 2025 3:01 PM UTC (8 months ago)
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