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It seems like people are only being sympathetic and pretending by saying "most feminists aren't like that".

If most feminists aren't like what you say they aren't, then why is the BS coming from them in today's culture so more mainstreamed?

Raising awareness with the express goal of favouring or opposing one group or another (or worse, one group over another) isn't fighting for equality, it's fighting for preferential treatment based on arbitrary characteristics.

Equality before the law, which includes equality of opportunity (but doesn't guarantee outcomes) is as far as it's possible to go without creating de facto oppression based on immutable characteristics.

The ground between liberalism and socialism is somewhat blurry, but there are some clear lines over which one should not step.

I'm not talking about favouring one group over another, I'm talking about trying to change negative aspects of society (such as misogyny).

I've said it before, and it seems I'm doomed to repeat it:

If feminists want to excommunicate members they need to appoint a Femipope. Until that happens, all Scotsmen are true - especially those whose views run parallel to what we see in the mainstream.

Which is favouring a specific group over an individual's right to hold women in contempt.

You're advocating thought policing for no appreciable gain, and for the right to not be offended.

How is raising awareness about social issues thought-policing? All it is, is encouraging people to do or not to do certain things in order to make the world a better place. It doesn't mean forcing them to do anything.

My biggest gripe with feminism is that it doesn't fight for true equality. All it cares about is getting women from the middle class up in positions of which there are extremely few to begin with, and to make it worse they want those positions not by outcompeting the men, but discriminating by law. To make it even even worse, we also need to mention the vast majority of people who are truly at the bottom of society, are almost all men, yet feminists couldn't possibly care less about them. There is no group of people for whom there is less sympathy, than the men who are barely clinging on to the edge of existence. Men don't have much sympathy for them, and women have as far as I can tell virtually none.

Lo did the goalposts shift.

You defined raising awareness as "trying to change negative aspects of society (such as misogyny)".

Misogyny is a dislike of, contempt for or prejudice against women - i.e. it's exists within an individual's mind, no matter that it may or may not manifest as behaviour. And let's not get started on the obscene number of items, practices, ideas, etc that get filed under misogyny by feminists, without ever clarifying whether or not the alleged perpetrator, creator, etc actually dislikes women, and often coming into conflict with other feminists over whether or not something is actually misogynistic (topless page 3 models, for example).

Let us also remember that many actual misogynists report their dislike or mistrust of women is due to the actions (often abusive) of individual women - former partners, mothers, etc - and who live in a world where the phrase "toxic masculinity" is a commonly expressed feminist catechism.

Rather than trying to fight a nebulous and open-ended "negative aspect", why not simply advocate everyone follow the Golden Rule?

If anything, "raising awareness about misogony" will probably just create more misogony.

Precisely.

You might need to clarify for an adequate response. You mean, why is society starting to take sexual assault and harassment more seriously? Or do you mean something else?

Will the misogynists be triggered?

No, they didn't. And that wasn't a definition, that's the purpose of raising awareness.

The term misogyny is not always literal. It can also include objectifying, dehumanizing and stereotyping women.

And that would be less nebulous and open-ended? Everyone knows they're supposed to follow the Golden Rule, but people still treat each other selfishly. It's better to point out specific ways people can help make a difference.

So we should just let misogynists be misogynists and do nothing about it?

The men who are already good will get annoyed over time by being thrown into the same category.
And the men who truly hate women you are never going to change, especially not by pointing fingers at them.

In my honest opinion, if feminists want a realistic shot at decreasing misogony in society, the only way is by showing more compassion towards men in general. But I know feminists won't do that, because to them, being outraged and having someone to blame, is much more important than actually solving problems.

Trust me, name calling and finger pointing will only succed in creating more misogony.

No one here is suggesting that all men should be lumped into the same category.

Maybe they can be changed, maybe not. But it's equally important to encourage good men to stand up against misogyny.

Don't generalize all feminists. Not all are hateful towards men, and many do try to make changes. Some men may be able to be taught with compassion and education. But others, like sexual harassers, it's just better to avoid.

I've been watching the feminist movement in my country, quite closely, for the past 5 years. I have not seen much compassion, if any at all, towards men.

It should also be mentioned, that since the feminist movement tend to subscribe to post modern ideas, they view every issue as a group vs group issue. For example: white men are priviledged, which is just straight up non sensical. Almost no movement is more guilty of generalizing all the time, than modern feminism.