I've often heard people say: "I'm for equality", only to have someone retort: "Well, then you're a feminist". By that token, I always wonder why radical feminist groups, are so eager to shut down all MRM efforts. Because clearly, since MRA's advocate equality, then we must be feminists too. Right? Oh... Appearently not.

Feminists consistently try to hog the word 'equality', because they have deluded themselves into thinking, that they are about men's rights too. I'm talking about the feminist thinkers who support feminist theory here, and who have taken the mission to fight patriarchy upon themselves. These people, who sit on their benches in academia; or who stand at the great blackboards in so-called 'women's studies' and 'gender studies' at western universites; are mostly women. They have female professors, female students, and female thinkers. They almost exclusively read books by female authors, and they are talking constantly about women's issues and women's history.

Yet; they still proclaim to speak for men. They have no idea what men are about. They don't know what men face, what they think, or how they feel as a collective. They have never tried to walk in men's shoes. They don't know what it means to face problems as men, or to grow up in society as a man. They do not represent us, and if they cannot represent the male half of the population, then they are not for equality.

We need to get people to point out, at every oppertunity, that feminism is not the same as equality. Just like the front page post, made by Zuzzie claims: "Equality is a concept that's not owned by feminism so don't push your label on me!". Let's change that discourse. Feminism =/= equality.