The phrase “feminism is good for men” is a case of a liar repeating a lie so often that they start believing their own lie

It began with a book that when published in 2000, was unknown and marginal even among feminists. It was called Feminism is for Everybody, and was written by an anonymous feminist woman called Bell Hooks. Only after Me Too, that is, the mass spreading of the most esoteric feminist beliefs held at the time by no more than a few thousands of fanatical women, to tens of millions of women and girls within less than a year, this massive dissemination being accomplished by uninhibited social-media violence and threat, did the name and book suddenly became a kind of a feminist icon. The book was undeniably meant as a childish self-aware manipulation – “why don’t you join me in a movement in which only I am regarded a human being and which serves only me and what I need from you, without any regard to your own humanity and any reciprocation and support from me to you and your needs from me in return? It’s good for you, really…”

Up to the supernova of social violence that feminists made out of Me Too (Me Too was not initiated by feminists, this causing them to feel deep insult, that pushed them to invest tremendous efforts in running from the back of the train to the motor to take control over the steering levers and drive that train to their own destination, which is where we are at today – a divorce between the sexes), feminists had no social or cultural legitimacy for expressing their aspiration of female anti-male chauvinism, and for declaring their vision of assigning to men a position they imagined women as having within their unfounded and distorted perception of the modern Western world. Nor was there any legitimacy for their racist-type hatred toward men (to publicly declare “kill all men”, to announce in the media racist-type declarations like “maleness is a genetic disease”, etc.). As a result, prior to 2017 feminists would routinely use manipulation to wrap the motives that were eventually exposed after Me Too, in sour sugar coating, and the book Feminism is for Everybody was precisely that.

It was obvious to the few who heard about the book when it came out that this was the self-aware intention of the writer, as in ‘here, fellow feminists, how about this tactic for manipulating men to act against themselves? Let’s tell them that our female-centric ideas are for their own good’. And this is how it was understood by feminists as well, they regarded it as too-blatant an attempt to manipulate men which is why at the time, the book wasn’t endorsed even by most feminists.

However, after in Me Too feminism has created in social media a norm of knowingly repeating falsehoods and disinformation freely, such as “only 2% of complaints are false!” (this figure was taken from a 1970s book in which a feminist cited a small-talk conversation where she heard the number, and not from any study, studies estimated 30% or more), “1 in 3!” (methodologically-sound studies show that 1.4% of women were raped, not 1 in 3), “a guy glancing at me left me traumatized – do you have any way of looking into my mind and finding out that in fact I didn’t even notice it, and that I am redrafting that memory to help feminism write an indictment against the entire male sex – because feminism promised me immense privilege if all men were indicted as innately criminal?”, after this normalization of repeating lies, the phrase that was known for more than a decade as a self-aware childish manipulation including among feminists – “Feminism is for Everyone” – entered the assembly line of falsehoods for mass-production by repetition.

It was first reiterated hesitantly, and then along 2018 as a declaration, until by the end of that year feminists, and women and girls captivated by the hate-movement forming around them, began sincerely believing their own lie –

  “Yes! Feminism, that movement which forces an employer to reject the better candidate for being a man in favor of a less qualified woman to meet quotas, leaving thousands of better-qualified men outside, is good for men!”

 ”Yes! That movement that spreads among teachers the idea that girls must be promoted at all cost until a study with 39,000 pupils reports that boys receive lower grades for same performances as girls thereby demonstrating how a prevalent feminist anti-male chauvinism made men only 40% of students in higher education, and caused the gap to continuously grow while powerful feminist persecution occurs in the background – is good for men!”

 ”Yes! That movement which vigorously created a social norm that if a man cheats then the man is guilty of abusive behavior, but if a woman cheats, then the man is guilty again, of ‘not treating her well’, spreading double standards to the point of publicly legitimizing female infidelity and calling on women to cheat in the mainstream media until a society is formed where women cheat more than men yet men are more socially reprehended by both sexes for this behavior – the movement that did and does that to men is good for men!”

 ”Yes! The movement that out of empathy for the grievance of a girl or a woman who is rejected by the entire other sex, coerces men through social shaming to be attracted to INCELS if they are female, by a ‘body positivity’ sub-movement that applies only to one sex and is designed to socially force men to engage sexually and romantically with women to whom they are not attracted in what seems as the closest thing to a rape-culture ever conceived – while telling the very same INCELS when they are male, to kill themselves, out of dehumanization and disregard for the very same grievance if it’s of men – that movement, is good for men!”

A post by a feminist describing the feminist treatment of boys and men, which feminists then call good for men. When feminists are confronted with such widely popular feminist sentiments, they blame the men who pointed to it with “you don’t understand feminism” (never do they approach those millions of feminists who make feminism what it is, with the same statement, possibly because of sympathizing with feminism as it is).

The case of the slogan “feminism is good for men” is that of the liar who repeated their lie so often that they started believing their own lie. What’s good for both sexes is humanism, not feminism. What men and women alike require is a perspective that sees in all people first and foremost their humanity. Which treats everyone only as humans, including the good and the bad that each and every human can posses. As opposed to movements that deconstruct the human being into traits, in order to classify humans by traits into so-called “groups” – the foundational perspective of ordinary racism – and then regard some as more human than others. They both need a perspective which articulates all of its decrees as applying to all people, in contrast to separatist racist-type movements such as feminism, which after dividing humanity into “groups” start searching for rationalizations and justifications for phrasing rights and protections only with the titles of some “groups” and prohibitions and punishments only with the mentioning of some “group of others”, to grant the status Human Being only to some and assign to others a status of a subhuman.

No, feminism is not good for men, separatism is not good for anyone, women included. What’s good for both sexes is universal humanism.