I think this person is confusing personal power with institutional power. The institutional power which exists is still a form of patriarchy. It was never supplanted by feminism. The only way to remove patriarchy is by slow progress and reform that eventually dismantles old institutions, which are replaced with new ones, or destroy them all in one broad stroke through a revolution. During this slow reform process, we receive backlash as the dominant class perceives a loss in privilege and power while the lesser class catches up. Essentially, most, if not all, discrimination is couched in class-ism. The idea that the “average” man does not have any power is only perceptually true under a patriarchal hierarchy where the “average” man rests somewhere between Rich Uncle Pennybags and the homeless guy on the street. So, the “average” man does have status and power, but it is always within the context of a male dominated hierarchy.

She says she understand the “comments” made by angry men. They are constantly picked on by the “feminist” boogeyman. She cares so much about the demoralization of men by the “feminist” phantom she completely missed the overindulgent hazing rituals men inflict upon each other to find who is “top dog,” or the self-effacing environment set up for men climbing to the top of the career tower, or the constant blaring propaganda selling He-Man style masculinity and military service. But she would probably dismiss this with “Well, boys will be boys.”

Also, I have never found anti-feminists to be very efficacious in eristics. Their argument style is “having an argument,” not “making an argument.” It’s just not their bailiwick, if you know what I mean. Any schmuck can angrily attack feminism and make dismissive, hackneyed statements.

It is sometimes fun to see what nonsense they currently believe in like “disposable utility,” “gynocentrism,” “hypergamy,” “red pill/blue pill/black pill,” “Myth of Male Power,” and on and on. It seems seeing men as the new victim class is the fun, edgy new entertainment every rubbish internet-dweller must get their hands on. After a while, it gets rather boring watching them play acting the angry, outraged, “how can this be so,” enervated chevaliers (so-called “nice guys,” sympathetic “Bettys,” and Jughead types).