You're technically correct, but a lot of them claim to be feminists, and when a vocal set of people self identify with a term, the set will be coupled with said term, that's how words change meaning
Sadly, we can't stop misandrists from calling themselves feminists (or radfem)
Of course, people who know the difference should do that (and they do, hence your comment, kudos btw), but we can't stop the whole phenomenon because there's people who have been introduced to the wrong definition of feminism before the historically correct one, and some of them just don't care about looking up the history of it when they see discussions online (or offline, even)
If we all stopped whatsoever, that would still happen at some point because those misandrists would still be loud enough to influence our vocabulary
It's inevitable, errors that propagate this fast change the language (fun fact: ghost used to be written without a "h" in it, the error propagated after people read it in the Bible, it was simply bad translation), at least we have "radfem" that separates a bit more the ideologies
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u/luca_se_la_come 26d ago
Not really, since the idea of "man hating" is directly against feminism.