Feminism is probably one of the most emotionally potent topics in American discourse. Feminism itself, and its many satellite topics does one thing very well though, and that’s exposing the everyday people who hold some really terrible beliefs. It has split the wheat from the chaff of actual believers in human liberation and reactionaries. I can tell who has fascist cravings easily based on the reaction they have to modern feminism.
Notice how when you talk to an MRA type, they constantly use the modifier "Modern" to describe feminism, to make you think they support women's liberation in any fashion. These are the same people saying that universal suffrage is a "failed experiment" because surprisingly, when the "lower orders of society" are out voting, the elections don't yield favorable results for the far-right. Imagine that.
The real irony of these types is that they actually hate the west and themselves. They will incessantly clamor about the "death of western civilization", but they don't earnestly like anything about the west other than white skin, and maybe a fascination with ancient history. These aren't champions of enlightenment or revolutionary values. They consider liberal democracy to be a failure, they love strong-men dictators who subvert our institutions of fairness to reinforce hierarchies that serve them. They sometimes claim to love christianity, although many end up as either secularists or neopagans, but none of them could earnestly be Christian and hold the intolerant beliefs that they do -- their appreciation comes from the punitive social laws and military successes of feudal and middle Christendom. They believe the intellectual movements that have made our culture so free are evil, self-destructive and contribute to some sort of "degeneracy" -- they hate nearly the entirety of post-18th century contributions to the humanities from the western world.
While they subconsciously understand that their entire being is totally post-modern, and that they are only where they are today because of the legacy left by radical jacobins in our culture, they see themselves as failures in it -- and feel like the things they hate about the west were the enablers of a pathetic state they see themselves in. That's why they hate the west, that's why they hate themselves, and frankly I don't see a worldview any of these reactionary [self-described] anti-feminists could have that doesn't entail total fascist authoritarianism (which maybe splits hairs over how much control private landowners should have on their utopian nation-state).
Am I supposed to believe that I have anything to learn from someone like that? I don't think I do. I only think it's too bad that they have lured so many low self-esteem young men into their far-right e-cult with a half-baked bit about "ethics in game journalism", pwnage compilation videos & played-out commentaries from e-celeb neonazis with still images on YouTube. The ones who fall for it are just as dumb as them though.