Feminists

The OP noted:

I had to stop calling myself a feminist back in the day when the movement was hijacked by the "my sole purpose in life is to hate men" people.

A tad blunt, but not far off the mark for a very vocal minority of the women's movement in the 70s. There seem to be a number of folks here who have forgotten (or were never aware of) that part of our history - and I do think it is important that we be aware of it so we don't keep making the same mistakes.

I didn't stop calling myself a feminist, because because I had not yet reached that stage of awareness. I went off to college as a farm girl who had to do all the same work my brothers did, and I didn't see any need - and I was much more embroiled in the controversy over the Vietnam war. But as the war ended and I gained more exposure to blatant discrimination it was very quickly the sole barrier to calling myself a feminist from 1974 through around 1980. I did not want to be associated with a group that felt that way so I found other outlets for my political activism.