Title: What is pseudofeminism? - Quora
Headings: What is pseudofeminism?
What is pseudofeminism?
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Content: But a question then arises, can someone hate men and be a feminist at the same time? Some people would say no; but wouldn’t implying that someone— who considers themselves to be feminist and believes that women deserve equal rights— is not actually a feminist, an example of No true Scotsman fallacy? Why then should one argue that they’re “misandrist”, rather than feminist? [ 2]
A paper published in the Feminist Media Studies journal in 2018 mentions the definition of misandry to be “dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against men (i.e., the male sex).” [ 3]
However, not everyone agrees with this definition. In an article in Delhi University’s independent student newspaper, two feminists discuss whether or not “misandry” is real (and come to the conclusion that it isn’t). [ 4]
Modern feminists (a significant fraction of them) do not consider the hatred or persecution of men by individual women to be “misandry”, but argue that since men don’t face systemic oppression (the way women do) misandry is not real. And many of them don’t even believe that hating men is a bad thing. Suzanna Danuta Walters, a professor of sociology and director of the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Northeastern University, Boston (USA) in an op-ed for Washington Post in 2018 asked “ Why can’t we hate men? ” [