Why Anti-Feminism Still Sounds Feminist

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'Words like empowerment, agency, and choice slip into our sentences without a second thought. They sound wholesome, but they carry a worldview: that morality begins with women’s feelings, that men must prove their virtue, and that harmony means protecting one sex from the other.

It’s not hypocrisy; it’s inheritance. After decades of dominance, feminism has become the cultural air we breathe. Even those who push back against it often do so in its moral vocabulary, defending traditional roles in the same language that once dismantled them. How can we expect to heal the divide between the sexes and create a pro-women landscape for both when all men hear in our voices is more feminism?
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Over the past few years, conservative women fed up with careerism, hookup culture, and the endless war between the sexes have started speaking out against the culprit. But instead of breaking away from feminist vocabulary, they borrow it. Choice. Agency. Empowerment. These are the words that still buy social legitimacy. We’ve spent so long in a woman-centered moral framework that even women who reject feminism still think and speak in those terms.

The feminist lexicon rebranded moral concepts into emotional ones. Empowerment no longer means strength but validation. Agency doesn’t mean accountability but autonomy without consequence. Even when conservative women say, “I choose to stay home; that’s what makes me feel empowered and feminine,” they’re still speaking the language of woman-centered justification feminism taught them.'