I know this will be extremely unpopular question, but before you jump on the DOWNVOTE button, give me a chance to explain.

Like it or not, feminism is perceived positively by a quite larger fraction of women and men. When MRA says feminism is evil, many mainstream people, women and men, will jump to a conclusion that MRA must be the evil one. You may think that these people are misinformed and that it must be easy to showcase numerous cases where feminism opposed equality or outright endorsed misandry. But you may be wrong.

Imagine you are having a civilized discussion with a neutral person - such a person would typically know very little about MRA and have positive views about feminism because, of course, every decent person supports equal rights (/s). Sooner or later you would have to explain that MRA is not evil for opposing feminism. In such civilized discussion, you do not want to really on anecdotal evidence or discredit yourself by mistaking some men-hating tumblr crazies for the representation of feminism. The r/TheRedPill is not the representation of the MRA either. No, you would want to make only two types of arguments:

  1. Arguments about recognized feminist ideology. What do feminist scholarly articles say, what do feminist studies teach. The patriarchy and male privilege BS kind. Marxist, radical, second-wave - anything but social media rants.
  2. Arguments about the actions of prominent feminists or recognized feminist organizations. Whether they opposed anti-paternity-fraud laws (who, when, where) or what they said about men (not MRA). The likes of Jezebel articles are borderline, and no, the Big Red is a troll, not a prominent feminist.

So you think it must be easy to offer such arguments? Let's see:

  1. The FAQ [1] of this sub is an excellent source in information, but on feminism it merely offers anekdotes, mentiones the Kyriarchy and the gender feminism. No hard data.
  2. The second reference in this sub's info box, the The Reference Book of Men's Issues [2] deliberately steers away from discussing ideology and feminism (which I see as inconsistent with the fact that feminism is a flair on this sub).
  3. The third reference in this sub's info box, the On the differences between the Feminist Movement and the Men's Rights Movement [3] again offers only anekdotes. The closes to a valid argument is a now dead link to something that Jessica Valenti apparently said about men.
  4. The Wikipedia page on antifeminism [4] focuses almost entirely on the narrative that opposition to feminism equals to the opposition of equal rights. 🤮
  5. The closest to a useful reference can be found on the criticism section of the feminism Wikipedia entry [5] (is it still there?), noting that "Writers such as [...] argue, for example, that feminism often promotes misandry and the elevation of women's interests above men's, and criticize radical feminist positions as harmful to both men and women.", with no further details.

If you have been paying attention you should be as concerned as I am, becuase the problem is not that I think that feminism does not promote misandry, it is that YOU can not easily prove that it does. That being said, if we want to keep fighting radical feminism, which I believe we must, we should better start a library of reliable resources on what is wrong with feminist official ideology and actions.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/wiki/faq

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/rbomi/wiki/main

[3] https://archive.vn/1v7BH#selection-445.0-445.8

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifeminism

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feminism#Anti-feminism_and_criticism_of_feminism