Men's Rights Movement

[FatAndFaithless]

Now a days, since women already have all the same legal rights, it doesn't mean anything specific anymore to say you're a feminist.

It does still have meaning because there's more to feminism than being about legal rights

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It's about equality but it's specifically about the fact women tend to get the short end of the stick unofficially despite the fact the law says otherwise officially.

The fact that feminism is a more important as a movement than egalitarianism is for exactly the same reason that the Black Lives Matter movement is more important than an All Lives Matter movement. When Black people still regularly get the short end of the stick it trivializes their difficulties if we instead insist on pushing "all lives matter". I mean, duh, of course all lives and all races matter. But the point is that Black people still tend to get the short end of the stick.

It's exactly the same with egalitarianism. Technically it is correct: Equality is ultimately what matters, duh. Just like all lives, and all races, matter, duh. But instead of pushing the obvious equality value it's important to focus on the fact that women still tend to get the short end of the stick: Hence why feminism and BLM are more important movements than egalitarianism and ALM.

I totally agree with you that movements are needed to draw attention to areas of disparity in society, and that adopting a vanilla "everyone should be equal" mantra kind of de-emphasizes the areas of greatest inequality.  I just think in this specific instance of this label (feminist), it's impossible to determine the motives/views/goals of an individual that uses it based on the word 'feminist', so it might not be a very useful label.