Debunking Feminism - Join our live podcast on this topic on 27th May at 4pm IST

“I don’t know how to reject this guy politely”
“Just tell him you’re a feminist”

A colleague said that to me recently,
and all of us burst out laughing.

Not because it was funny,
but because it was believable.

Somewhere along the way,
“feminist” stopped sounding like a political identity and started sounding like a warning label.

And honestly,
that shift didn’t happen accidentally.

I still remember creating a dating profile years ago and being told:

“Don’t put feminist in your bio if you actually want matches”

And that stayed with me.

Because when did wanting equal rights become something people tell women to hide?

What’s even stranger is how many people passionately hate feminism
without actually knowing what feminism means.

The internet has turned it into this caricature:

An angry woman with colored hair and tattoos,
who hates men,
wants female superiority,
wants revenge.

So now anytime a woman behaves badly,
suddenly feminism gets blamed for it.

A woman manipulates someone?
“Modern feminism”

A woman is abusive?
“Feminists won’t talk about this”

A marriage fails?
“Feminism destroyed society”

Meanwhile patriarchy itself is so deeply normalised that people rarely even notice it unless it harms men directly.

And maybe that’s the irony.

People hear “equal rights for women”
and interpret it as
“taking rights away from men.”

Maybe because historically,
power has often worked exactly like that.

But feminism was never supposed to be the inverse of patriarchy.

Not female domination.
Not misandry.
Not a competition over who gets to oppress whom.

And yes there absolutely are people online misusing the label.

But calling those people “pseudo feminists” already admits they are not representative of feminism itself.

That’s exactly what I want to unpack in our next podcast episode.

Not as a lecture.
Not as a gender war.

But as an honest conversation about why feminism became a bad word in the first place.

Because somewhere between internet outrage, misogyny, performative activism and misinformation,
we stopped having nuanced conversations altogether.

So let’s unpack it together.

📍 Debunking Feminism
📅 27th May, 2026
⏰ 4pm IST
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