It is always like this. This is why you don't pay any heed to people who appeal to your female socialization and suggest you tone the feminism down.
You're not trying to persuade men that women are whole people with rights, as though you tacitly accept them as the ones who bestow or remove your rights.
You are speaking to other women, giving them the courage to stand up and demand their basic due - as half the human race. This is not a point of argument. This is not something I need to be nice about or I won't get it. This is fundamental.
That's what courage calls to courage means. You're rallying your fellow women to know that they matter, and that their No is absolute, and no man is in a position to disregard or endorse it.
We do not seek the permission of men to be liberated from the many ways they exploit and control us. When push comes to shove, and it always will, you get up as a woman and you take your rightful place in the world.
You'll watch them NAMALT, and encourage compromise with the 'nicer' men, and tell you that you're an angry man hater, every time you centre women with no regard for a man's opinion.
But you know what? They'll do that anyway, whether you feminism is meek or strident, and the firmer you are, the more women will see it's possible and will join you.
Why do you think FWR has been so relentlessly targetted? Because through intense pressure, the women here have held the line that women matter, and every time another woman hears it, it's more effective.
Don't ask for men's permission or endorsement of your fight for women's rights. It's nothing to do with them.