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MHRM blogs and forums often see posts from women self identifying as feminists who object to the characterisation among MHRAs that feminism is not interested in equality and that is in fact an anti-male movement. There are many women in the community who profess to support gender equality and openly call themselves feminists. It is reasonable to conclude that the majority of women who make this claim are honest in their belief. This article is intended to respond to those queries.

Opinions among MHRAs differ about whether feminism was ever a movement interested in gender equality but the overwhelming belief is that if it ever was, it isn't any more.

The very name of the movement gives a clue about its real aims. The early founders of this movement could have given the movement a gender-neutral name such as Egalitarianism but they didn't. They named the movement for one gender. They called it feminism. This name immediately indicates that this movement is for women rather than being for gender equality.

Regardless, most MHRAs are concerned about modern (third wave) feminism rather than historical feminism.

Denying men's issues

Attempts to bring legitimate men's issues in to conversations with feminists are often with met with derision and dismissal. The activities of feminists at the University of Toronto to shutdown a conference on men's human rights are now legendary. The feminists formed a crowd outside of the building hosting the conference and yelled and jostled people who tried to get in. They also illegally activated a fire alarm in the building to force all of the conference participants to leave the building and thus disrupt the conference.

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