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Vegan
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Vegan asked in Social ScienceGender Studies · 8 years ago

What is the distinction among antifeminists, MRA's and nonfeminists?

By nonfeminist I mean people who simply don't identify as feminist.

Update:

In other words compare and contrast:

nonfeminist

MRA

antifeminist

Update 2:

I do appreciate your answer Werbie, but I'm seeing others claim it is possible to be an MRA and not antifeminist so I'm still a bit uncertain.

Update 3:

Both Christina Hoff Summers and Warren Farrell are antifeminists, but at least they try to be intelligent about it.

Update 4:

Ahh I was mistaken about Christina Hoff Summers. I knew she was critical of feminism but didn't realize she identified as a feminist. Since I believe feminists are self selecting she does qualify as both.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    MRA's are antifeminists, but an antifeminist dosen't necessarily have to be an MRA.

    But antifeminists do usually have a preference for MRA's.

    "I'm seeing others claim it is possible to be an MRA and not antifeminist so I'm still a bit uncertain."

    The MRA group was founded on antifeminism. It was created as a opposite and equal force to feminism, in a very misguided perception that feminists are a hate group against men.

    If the MRA's genuinely cared about their issues, they'd have no problem working with feminists to find a common ground.

    Instead, they wrought war against it, trying to slow down the progression of feminism at all costs.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    Ya Coffee and Pretty Little Liar, both feminists, have claimed that MRAs can work together with feminists, and there are a few accounts where they have, just not in the way most feminists would like them to (e.g. Christina Hoff Summers and Warren Farrell). Therefore, even though a large majority of MRAs are anti-feminist, it is not a requirement. Was the MRM founded as an anti-feminist movement? Yes. Does this mean all MRAs are bound to anti-feminism? No. Just like every feminist is different, so is every MRA.

    Just like feminists would like for others to stop generalizing them and conflating them with radicals, feminists should probably do the same and maybe, just maybe, they'll start to work together. However, their certain parts of their ideologies will still clash so I wonder how far that will go.

    What I think makes this whole thing so difficult is the fact that there are different feminists and different MRAs, and everyone is trying to apply an image to each movement base don the ones they've met. That doesn't seem to be working out very much. Instead, judge for what the movements are doing. When you do that, you'll see that the amount of MRAs actually doing something are very very small. The rest? They largely don't do anything at all to help men. They just troll women and right obscenities on their internet blogs. They literally do nothing to help men, so I'd reconsider calling them MRAs, unless they are some sort of "armchair activist."

    Edit: Sommers calls herself an "equity feminist." Therefore I will go by that label rather than further complicating things. I really don't understand the need to force labels on people, I just don't.

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