Men were never included in feminism as human beings, but rather, these humans were only “the patriarchy”. Because men were never seen in feminism as humans but only as a “force” to be defeated, when feminism became the Western framework for “universal equality”, in the West feminism became chauvinism – female anti-male chauvinism – since save for the womansplaining of men by radical feminism, men’s humanity and human needs were never part of feminism, now becoming “the universal theory of equality.” This left men with no venue for being supportive of equality without on the same note endorsing their own marginalization and dehumanization, causing some women to interpret men’s inability to identify as feminists as “being against women,” while men only required to be included as humans too in whatever perception of equality should the West perceive as universal – “universal” meaning applying to every human, both in decrees and in protections. All the while, in essence, most in both sexes in the past century in the West never intended to marginalize the other sex, but rather, had no universal equality-perception for their relations meant for both – one that marginalizes none and allows both sexes to endorse equality of both, together, in the same framework and statement.

[Excerpt taken from here]