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Early third wave (not current wave which is the fourth in some Yuropian classifications) male pro feminist currently inactive not from the USA (where I live equal pay was still a problem as late as the early 90's) reporting.
Finding a reasonable feminist with some power and exposure is like trying to find a mildly reasonable muslim with strong media presence in the west. You won't find one (Maybe based mom but I haven't read her work, my sources say it's outdated on some points but ok). If this reads like ideological suicide, it isn't. Feminism like atheism is just a collection of different individuals, philosophies and different sets of beliefs that happens to have some points in common. It just happens that such denomination often calls for unsavory individuals.
-Simplistic view- Popular works with inflamatory, radical and (incredible but true) outdated and thrice refuted rethoric mostly erupted from some heavy works in really oppressed countries like Nigeria in the 60's and absorbed most of the studies and rethoric of the invisible other (lesbian, black, woman) gaining popularity in the US using the footholds that more reasonable feminists gained, propelled by polliticians searching for votes since the 80's using the excuse of pollitical correctness (that serious left academics disregard for the same reasons Terry Eagleton did, that he considered the widespread movement of PC to be a trick engineered to give small bones to opposition while impeding true change, basically predicting current SJWs 40 years before they happened). Such ideas appeal to young women who know nothing of the movement and /do not, will not/ read works or ideas outside of their mother tongue and comfort sphere.
There are also authors that transitioned from reasonable ideas and brilliant insights to distinct levels of crazyness (Julia Kristeva IMO, as well as half the French circle), and some people suspect they were sabotaged in the US using CIA infiltration methods (which would explain the rapid decline of feminist postures in this country).
The niggresses and niggas that deal with real work and facts are exactly doing that, going to communities that have strong poblems, publishing mostly neutral papers that have undergone a thousand and one revisions, studying, and trying to improve conditions for everyone, not just women (a few years back, we sent a proposal to my country's congress for a new law that would allow widowers to inherit partial pensions from their wives, not just if they were economically inferior, and another to allow divorced men to see their children a minimum of hours regardless of custody unless they presented criminal behaviour or were proven to be damaging to their kids or ex this to be demonstrable in front of a jury). Meanwhile the fucknuts that basically don't fact check their shit (doing so would be insta death) and use sex and corruption to advance academically and bring people similar to them upwards gained power everywhere.
There were and still are objections presented to them but you won't see them outside of non advertised congresses, their programs are few and produce results normally after years of work (dealing with social problems is agonizingly slow) while other disciplines are frankly more attractive for budget distribution, and when they show some promise radicals do whatever they can to shut them off. I can't even remember which feminist congress Ms Sarkeesian had closed as there were cathedratics doing harsh criticism of her works in the same university she was going to give a "lecture", that should tell you enough.
For the niggas interested on how to have a reliable detection system that differentiates the good ones from the bad ones, I have a very decent method that is easy to use and maybe dissapointingly quick. Take it from this post if you want to disregard the rest.
If feminist comes from a solid background in linguistics, sociology, (in some cases) history or psychiatry fields b4 entering the movement, or remains heavily related to these fields afterwards and in either case has some peer recognition because of it give 30% more creed. This is where you want to go for gender studies to be properly managed, and to have a decent discussion about it. Note: lately linguistics has fallen in level, so check first.
If feminist comes from any of the following =communications, pollitics, economic sciences, liberal arts, and (in some cases) philosophy; BEWARE.= This also applies to most people with unknown backgrounds like internet celebrities that may be riding this tendency because either gullibility or PC bullcrap.