18% of women define themselves as feminists?

I think the term “feminist” is misleading in a sense. Not all women will publicly acknowledge the “F~~~ personal hygiene, kill all men, men are pigs” brigade.

However, I have yet to meet a woman who doesn’t suffer from 2 things:
A) Inherent solipsism. I.E. Always asks “How does this affect/reflect on me”

B) In-group preference for other women over men.

These are the cornerstones of feminism, that’s why they tend to be unable to deal with stereotypes, generalizations and heuristics, because they inevitably take them personally.

This is exemplified by the predictable conversation:
Man: Some women are gold-digging whores.
Woman: I’m not a gold-digging whore.

The easiest way I can put it, for women, the only venn diagram that can exist is a circle, that revolves around her.

If we contrast and compare with feminist rhetoric:
Feminist: All men are rapists #killallmen

It is understandable that men get annoyed, because she her words refer to “all men”.

So the man in conversation one is referring to a subset, for instance all women are set W that holds all women. Women who are gold digging whores are a subset of that set that does not include everything in set W.

The feminist on the other hand is referring to set M, that includes every man.