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SWJ does not refer to most feminists, or social justice advocated. The term originated from, and is most associated with a vocal sub-culture of anti-male feminists largely on tumblr, though somewhat in the larger blog-o-sphere.

It's classical puritan pearl clutching with the sacred cows of the left instead of the right, totally annoying, and totally completely normal and well within the tradition of American moral panics.

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But still, using SJW as something negative sounds odd. And as a matter of fact, I know a lot of feminists, including male ones, who care deeply about social justice and tend to identify with the term SJW. The argument shouldn't be whether social justice is good or bad, but about what social justice really entails. Clearly, man-hate has no place in it; no kind of hatred of a general class of people is just.

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