Yes. Being apart of an outdated and dangerously hateful movement is hilarious.
I think you're misunderstanding what feminism actually stands for. From the dictionary:
fem·i·nism [fem-uh-niz-uhm] Show IPA
noun
1.
the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
2.
( sometimes initial capital letter ) an organized movement for the attainment of such rights for women
I think you're confusing the extremists with the actual goals of the movement. The women who completely erase the "equal to those of men" and replace it with "superior to those of men" are the problem in feminism.
However, I could say the same for MRA members who react like this to women getting killed because they aren't putting out. When Elliot Rodger was a huge thing back in early June, late May, there were some very disgusting tweets from MRA members on Twitter (and copied to Facebook) that basically stated that women were at fault for his violence because they wouldn't be sexually intimate with them. They were also at fault for choosing interracial relationships that pissed him off and felt devalued the white man's superior sexual priveleges in regards to mate-finding. These self-proclaimed MRA advocates were not supporting the massacre; however, they were blaming the women who wouldn't sleep with him, many who didn't even know his intentions or who he was. He felt sexually entitled because he was rich, and these MRA advocates were completely in agreeance with this mindset.
But you wouldn't go around saying all MRA individuals are misogynistic or like these self-proclaimed MRA members on Twitter. They aren't. There are people like my father who would've just liked to have the same maternity benefits, given the absence of a mother. There are men who would just like to be told that yes, they can be raped; it's not just a crime against women (regardless if it happens way more often to women), and that they shouldn't be ashamed to bring the matter to the police. Violence against men is less severe typically than that against women, but it does exist, and society is biased thinking that hitting a woman is never OK, but hitting a man is shrugworthy. Although the MRA has less relevance due to less historical oppression, it is still relevant in these cases, both of which I have experienced myself through my father's childrearing and the gunpoint rape of an old male friend of mine.
I watched a video actually of this bias. A woman was verbally assaulting a man in public and even started hitting him, etc. and everyone in the square did nothing. They retested with the man verbally assaulting the woman, though, and it didn't even escalate to physical assault before people got involved and told the guy to back off. It's pretty backwards. Hitting anyone of any gender, race, orientation, etc. is never OK; I thought they taught this in kindergarten?
Anyway, it's not the movements that are poison, but the extremists that exist in feminism and the MRA. If you hate anything, don't hate the movements, but the individuals who you see, hear, or read doing things that are actually against what the movement is about.
I still think overall, though, that merging the groups into just a humanitarian effort for equal rights will obliterate part of the issue, as we can all focus on what affects others and what is unfair. Humans are far too self-centered / selfish / egotistical for that. Always "me, me, me" and it's sad.
