I don't label myself as an anti-feminist or a men's rights activist. I don't want to take on a label and have that group speak for me, or me speak for that group. The MRAs are not women bashing, they are not promoting violence against women, they are simply talking about men's issues. I acknowledge that misogynist rhetoric can also be expressed by people who identify as men's rights activists, but it's often by anonymous posters in online forums and not by the MRAs as a group.

The Constitution says everyone is equal under the law, but in practice, men don’t always have the same access to basic legal rights as women do. It is men and minority/racial men, who has the worse end of the stick. A lot of issues that affect men tend to get ignored or brushed aside when people talk about “gender equality.”

The "classical" definition of feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideologies that seek to define and establish political, economic, personal, and social equality of the sexes. However, actions speak louder than words. Feminism is not about equality; it's about female supremacy and rights for women and often leaves men out of the equation.

Traditionalism and feminism actually resemble each other more than most people realize. Both ideologies, often unintentionally, lean heavily into gamma bias and the “women are wonderful” effect.

They tend to: - The idea that men and women could be equally capable of good and evil threatens both frameworks, because each depends on a moral hierarchy of women good, men bad to function.

  • Treat men as largely invulnerable and women as uniquely vulnerable

  • Assume men hold most of the power and privilege, while women are mostly powerless and disadvantaged

  • Downplay or erase male victims and female perpetrators

  • View men as inherently more violent, predatory, or dangerous than women

  • Rely heavily on gender stereotypes and gender essentialism

  • Show little respect for due process and the rights of the accused

  • Use dehumanizing or moralizing rhetoric

  • Promote black-and-white, polarized “good vs. evil” narratives

  • Think in rigid categories and absolutes rather than nuance

  • Infantilize women while holding men to harsher standards

  • Treat men’s suffering as either self-inflicted or unimportant

  • Expect men to sacrifice for women “for the greater good”

  • Frame female harm as a societal failure and male harm as a personal failure

  • Justify unequal treatment under the guise of “protection”

  • Framing women as needing control or protection; feminism does it by framing women primarily as victims of systems. In different ways, both avoid fully acknowledging women’s capacity for harm, manipulation, or moral responsibility.

In that sense, traditionalism and feminism aren’t opposites at all—they’re more like two ends of the same horseshoe.

It’s a mistake to frame traditionalism as anti-egalitarian and feminism as pro-egalitarian, or to think of traditionalism as “traditional” and feminism as inherently “progressive.” In practice, both ideologies often reinforce the same underlying assumptions about gender.

Feminists want to be equal to men and to do some of the same things as men, but there is nothing enviable or better about the traditional gender roles that males have. Most men’s rights activists are advocating against society’s unfair and sexist treatment of men and boys; they are not trying to take away women’s rights.

Rather than challenging old hierarchies, they frequently preserve them—just with different moral justifications. In that way, both traditionalism and feminism can be deeply traditional and surprisingly anti-egalitarian. Either way men lose out on both either side. Men don't need egalitarianism, feminism, or traditionalism. Men need male advocaty groups and organizations that strictly helps only men and boys. There are tons for women, but few for men.