One of the founding tenants of feminism is the strive for equality, and for many this includes the gender neutralising of language to avoid perpetuating gender roles. And so now we have 'police officer' and 'chair' instead of 'police man' and 'chairman'. At least in those cases, I'd say it's not awkward, it's technically more correct and it's just more inclusive, so I support it.
So, hopefully you'll understand why I don't want the label I use to represent the strive for equality to be named after just one sex. 'Gender egalitarian' is a more neutral, inclusive and technically correct term.
'Feminism' sounds like a women's advocacy movement, and that is not a bad goal. Men's advocacy, or Men's Rights Activism (MRA), is not a bad goal either. Hopefully of course, both groups also believe in gender egalitarianism too, but unfortunately that is not necessarily the case. A women's or men's advocacy group could easily advocate for their group in a way that is unequal for society. And of course, many have.
At the very least, insisting that the fight for gender equality only be called 'feminism' seems to exclude even the possibility that men could face problems because of their gender, the same way 'police man' seems to exclude the possibility of female police. And so while I don't want to insist others use it differently, that's why I avoid using it with that meaning myself.
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