In theory I could maybe agree with you @Oscarthedog, I like many other naive women heard about men’s rights activism and initially thought “well good for them! Fighting against harmful male stereotypes, highlighting the disproportionately high rates of suicide among men, challenging male circumcision practices, hurrah!”.
In reality though- this is not the shape and flavour of the current MRA movement, if you ever visit one of their websites or forums you are met with an near endless parade of hatred for women, calling them all “wh*res, manipulators, narcissists”. Quite a lot of rape and murder fantasies on there too. The most prominent subsections of their community include Incels (responsible for more than one terrorist attack/mass shooting against women e.g. Elliott Rogers), pick up artists (most famous one of these Roosh V is best known for saying rape should be legalised), far right “traditionalists” (e.g. Nick Fuentes who believes that women should not have the vote and should be confined to home-making as an occupation, oh and they shouldn’t be educated either). This is just a handful of examples, not even the worst ones.
Even the most acceptable public faces associated with this movement have some shocking views on women (that does ironically seem to be their main focus). Take Jordan Peterson, he’s publicly floated the idea of “enforced monogamy” to remedy the pain of incels. The more casual, nominally liberal, members of the manosphere like Joe Rogan say things like “I think of women who don’t like children the same way I think of dogs who eat their own shit”- Rogan has also been accused by friends of being a misogynist privately of being angry and verbally abusive towards strippers (as per Howard Stern- not exactly a feminist himself).
I think the most ardent anti-feminist would have to admit that the rise in feminism has not led to acts of terrorism by women against men, nor has it led to a move to suppress men’s rights (no feminist group is trying with withdraw the vote from men that I’ve heard of). The rhetoric may sometimes feel a bit rough to men, but most of the reforms feminists have fought for and won have also benefited males to a large degree too. Better legislation around domestic violence protects boys from violence as well as women and girls for example. Better rights for women who leave a marriage also typically benefits children more financially. Weakening of mandatory gender roles has benefited men who don’t fit into the stereotypical roles for men formerly prescribed by society. Increased pay for women and more women in the work place has increased prosperity for families and society as a whole.
So men fighting for better rights for men in society shouldn’t be a bad thing at all, I agree, but at the moment it mostly really is. I think we all look forward to the day that an MRA movement focuses on the harrowing issues around men’s violence against men, male prison rape and violence norms, exploitation of young men through targeted recruitment to the military, and bodily autonomy issues such as consent to male circumcision.
You might enjoy the work of Pop Culture Detective, he has some interesting takes around some of these issues