What Snipe said. A few feminists go around giving the ideology a bad name but actual feminists just believe men and women should have equal rights. Because it's an ideology, and not an organization or anything like that. It covers a wide variety of people. Some of whom call themselves that but do not really act that way at all. For example it's possible for someone to be pro-life and be a feminist and pro-choice and be a feminist. Even though those two camps are as different as different can be. You shouldn't assume anything about a person beyond that they believe in equal rights for both gender until they explain themselves.