If the people who self-identify as feminists in practice actually believed that, life would be easy. As it is, the perception to the vast majority of people is

If the people who self-identify as feminists in practice actually believed that, life would be easy. As it is, the perception to the vast majority of people is such that I find it more effective to avoid the word and simply advance the equal rights part. Wanting to avoid associating yourself with the general zeitgeist of thought generated by soi-disant feminists is, annoyingly, quite reasonable currently. "With friends like these, who needs enemies" applies a lot more often than I might like :(