Completely agree with the pendulum hypothesis (a theory indeed already) and not letting any offense make us fall into rage and the other side of the pendulum they are claiming us to be.<p>Agree also in the big problem with the word &#x27;feminism&#x27;. It seems the opposite of &#x27;machism&#x27;, and machism is bad, to claim supperiority of men over women, so many people still think feminism is claiming supperiority of women over men. 
And as you say, there are soooo many variants of feminism that indeed claim that, and so many feminists (men and women) that claim it, that when I say &#x27;of course I&#x27;m feminist&#x27; I always have to inmediately explain what I mean in case someone doesn&#x27;t really know it&#x27;s real meaning, coming from the context of its birth, as an oposition to machism.<p>And almost always, personal feelings, traumas, etc get into every discussion, deforming reason incredibly. Also prejudices about what you are trying to say (filling everything non explicitly stated with what they want to hear, you being the monster they&#x27;re desiring to crunch). So you have to loose so much time stating everything about the context of what you are refering to, it&#x27;s better not to even begin, as if they read you, either wouldn&#x27;t understand anyway, feelings and lack of practice in logic would make them not to reason properly, or would just be the kind that doesn&#x27;t really want to listen and be open to change in front of new  verified data and reasonings, as all of us should, and will attack you using the lowest use a human can give to its brain, a use we have used over centuries to destroy and kill innocents (evil plots, rumours, false accusations, deformation of claims, lies, ...).