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Comment author: [deleted] 04 December 2012 12:03:27PM 7 points [-]

I think that “feminism” is a very counter-intuitive label for that memeplex (imagine anti-racism was called “blackism”), and that that might have contributed to people misunderstanding what (‘sane’) feminists are about. (In Italian it's even worse -- sexism is usually called maschilismo, so people assume femminismo is reverse sexism, and even use it as a slur against people they perceive to be misandrist, and MRAs call themselves anti-femministi.)

As a sane feminist, I was happy to discover sane MRA type sites such as ozy's No Seriously, What About teh Menz?, and the over-arching The Good Men Project.

Me too. I'm pleasantly surprised to find out that there are people who can discuss certain issues with extremely low levels of mind-killing, which made me change my mind about what I wrote earlier. (Well, this too.)

Comment author: wedrifid 19 December 2012 11:44:55AM 1 point [-]

nd that that might have contributed to people misunderstanding what (‘sane’) feminists are about.

That and sane people in general speaking less hysterically and drawing less attention than insane people.