Does フェミニスト mean something like "womanizer"?


Does フェミニスト mean something like "womanizer"?

[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88#Noun)
says:

> (dated, colloquial) a chivalrous man

[Vice](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkvmn7/is-dr-robotnik-a-feminist-an-
investigation) reports that someone on Reddit said:

> One Reddit commenter suggested that the text could be a mistranslation from
> Japanese, and is actually meant to suggest Robotnik is a "womanizer"
> (obviously pretty different to a feminist)

...

I can sort of see how "a chivalrous man" could mean "womanizer", but is that a
common use of フェミニスト nowadays?




In Japanese, フェミニスト often referred to a male person who is kind, gallant and
courteous to ladies, in which case the word had little to do with political
movements or social rights. All the three monolingual dictionaries I checked
have a definition like 女性を大切に扱う男性, and one of them explicitly says this is a
Japanese-only meaning of the word. However, as Wiktionary says, I feel this is
a dated meaning typically found in novels written in more than 50 years ago.
Anyway, the word has never had a meaning like womanizer or playboy.

I hesitate to say this, but in the last few decades, the word フェミニスト (or フェミ
for short) has become a fairly negative word in Japanese. As you can see by
[searching for フェミ on
Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?q=%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F&f=live),
people very often use this as a derogatory term that refers to women who look
down on men, women who blame men for every social problem, women who bothers
even other women by trying to protect women's rights, women who hate all sorts
of pornographic materials involving women, and so on.

