One of the comments reads : Actually, we will probably never figure out, was it man or woman. but I thought this comment of the professor was an interesting eye opener. https://mastodonapp.uk/@MarkHoltom/112070436760917344
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I've definitely heard of misogynists, and of misogynists disguising themselves as legitimate men's advocates, but I'd never heard of "men's rights activists" as a specific group of misogynists before this.
Without this explanation, had someone said "men's rights activists are misogynists," I would have thought they were a misandrist, because it sounds like a general descriptor and not a specific group.
So what do you call it when someone who's not a misogynist advocates for equal treatment in the areas where men get the short end of the stick?
Generally, they're described as part of the men's liberation movement. The men's movement split decades ago into men's rights movement, which often comes at the issue from a more conservative premise that views feminism as going to far and eroding men's rights, and the men's liberation movement which generally is more liberal and wants to critically look at traditional masculinity and how those expectations may harm men.
Hmm, intuition implies the inverse. I would have guessed men's liberation means "liberation from women" and thus misogyny. I guess unintuitive terminology is just the way things go.