MRA's (Mens Rights Activists) are extremely critical of feminism.

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325. No. Just the ones who claim to discuss feminist "history" while doing nothing of the sort.

There are feminists and then there are "feminists", and the latter are on DU only to divide it against itself along gender lines.

Things like the self-contradictory "benevolent sexism" are a case in point. Sexism is, by definition, not benevolent. All discussions stemming from that OP were begun by the "feminists" I am here condemning as false, and were begun and posted under knowingly false pretense. Their goal in using it was, and is, the same as the framing provided by the Republicans' "Clear Skies Initiative", "No child Left Behind", and (perhaps especially) "Compassionate Conservatism".

See the pattern? Framing, used against us all, to confuse and divide. Framing, used to knowingly lie to us. It should be as familiar to us as an old blanket from early childhood.

They are trolls, full stop. We all know who they are. It isn't even all of them; I'm speaking of perhaps four or five people total, people who (intentionally) elicit far more division than any legitimate, thoughtful, productive discussion of actual inequality would ever cause. Don't let them confuse you. They are not in any way interested in feminism, equality, or women's rights. They are interested in driving actual feminists off DU, and in controlling discussions to that end. They have had some success in that regard, and they know it.

I fully expect one of them to alert this post. Fuck them; even if it's hidden, this post will remain, and I know I'm not the only one on DU who opens every single hidden post they see.

I'll leave unsaid what I think of the OP. That would deserve a hide.