Ever since i set up a women's group, at college, aged 16...I've fielded, and defended from, accusations that feminism is just about" man hating". Of course it isn't, i'd say..it is just about pointing out oppressions and double standards women face purely on account of their sex.....and also the systems which perpetrate them. I still agree with that defence.....although now, almost 40 years later.......I've evolved and grown somewhat....as have many aspects of our particular society, at least.
My granddaughter is now growing up with notions that she can express all of her talents and enjoyments in life; and she is faced with women in a wide range of roles and occupations in a way I wasn't at her age.
Much else which is the same, or similar, I now tend to see as to some extent as having some degree of inevitability - due to sex differences which are innate or relatively freely chosen.
The rise of TRA ideology, and the whole trans 'non- debate' has highlighted this, and given reason to re-examine much of feminist dogma.....especially the dogmas in which all differences are socially constructed......and also the bits, and those few people, which are, very clearly, just hating of men/maleness in general......and which seem to be waging an eternal war of the sexes..
I wonder how those who argue like this, and who yet are married to men, or who have sons, can stomach the dissonance......