Does it ruin the purpose

The clue is in the name, feminism is about women's rights.

Feminism - the advocacy of women's rights on the ground of the equality of the sexes.

Yup, I get what ur saying, but ‘equality of the sexes’ right? One isn’t better than the other. I’m a female myself, but sometimes it just confuses me why some people just advocate hatred to men in the name of feminism- by doing that aren’t they just turning people away from it?

True feminists do want equality and they will advocate for both men's and women's rights.

That is a logical fallacy, who are you to gatekeep feminism?

No, it's me using a dictionary definition to define a word.

No, it's me using a dictionary definition to define a word.

No, it's me using a dictionary definition to define a word.

Well.... there’s extremists in ANY ideology or movement, literally EvErY sINgLe OnE. But that doesn’t mean it’s representative of the whole movement or wutever it is. They obvsly have had maybe personal experience, feel apathetic becoz we arguably can’t change our patriarchal system or just misinterpreted wut feminism is, I’m a very passionate feminist myself and disagree that “so many” are misandrists. But in fact most don’t believe this, do some in depth research and follow proper and widely supported feminist pages and you’ll probz understand better than I have said it or maybe even change ur mind and realise that most don’t advocate this at all and accly call out those who do xx although I agree with literally everything feminists advocate for, there r quite a few issues with the movement that I believe to be true but being predominantly man haters or wanting a matriarchal system isn’t one of them xx

We must be reading from very different dictionaries. Which dictionary are you using?

dictionaries are not good places to get the definitions of social movements as they're often a) behind, b) far too brief to actually cover anything, and c) it often varies group to group or person to person anyway. there are thousands of definitions of feminism and none of them are the One True Definition

Couldn’t agree more, obviously woman advocate woman’s rights but apparently to some that looks like taking away rights of men. literally woman raise awareness and try to help male issues like toxic masculinity, high suicide rates, transgender and gay issues, or mental health etc.

To just add in, feminists have opened up to even more things esp intersectional feminism r caring for women,men, asexual ppl, youth metal Heath, disability ppl, race issues, homosexuals etc

True feminists do want equality and they will advocate for both men's and women's rights. Extreme feminists ("feminazis") should not represent the movement, but are unfortunately a loud minority. These people do ruin the movement, just as angry vegans ruin that for those who are calm and peaceful. There's always that bunch, but you can't let it change your view of the cause if you can help it.

Ahh, I get what you’re saying abt not letting them represent the movement, it’s just a shame that a lot of people go against the whole movement on the basis of these individuals

The one you sent still mentions "equal", so I think that would imply both sexes are at the same level rather than one being put down. All definitions I see mention "equality". Generally there is a focus on women because of historical oppression, but going by the premise that both sexes should be on a level playing field, men's issues should also be brought in.

So you weren't reading from a different dictionary, in fact you weren't reading from a dictionary at all.

Women can be raised to a level play field as men without men being raised to a level playing field in areas in which they are struggling.

In 2020 everyone is equal under the eyes of the law. These woke ideologies should be disbanded anyway.