>"men's rights" activists that are more motivated by misogyny and antifeminism than actually righting wrongs.
What you think or told they are motivated by and their actual motivations are different things.
What you think or told they are motivated by and their actual motivations are different things.
The OP is utterly right in saying that the ground has been salted by these man-children. Men do face problems, but MRAs do little work and mostly just armchair whine. How many of them create working groups or petition politicians or similar? Compare to feminism, where while it has a share of whiners, is mostly pro-active; organising events, talking to stakeholders, starting discussions instead of derailing them. You see it here on HN, where a topic is about women, and the whiners come out to derail... yet these same MRAs don't post their own articles about men.
MRAs complain while the real men concerned by men's issues are actually doing something. Worried about the discrepancy between funding for breast cancer vs prostate cancer? Well you can moan about the nasty feminists and how society cares about women's suffering more than men's, or you can make a difference.
Do they identify as MRAs though?
You and the OP are generalizing. You should apply the same nuance you show for feminisim to MRAs.
While it might not be entirely fair, if the majority of the visible "Men's Rights" proponents are the extremists, then they will end up being the ones to claim the banner for themselves as the term isn't as well established yet.
[0] If they are to be believed, all claims of rape by women are false, and should be taken with a enormous grain of salt. Also it's actually better to be a woman in society right now than a man because there's no downside to being a woman and a huge downside to being a man.