Definitely a revenge thing, on my country's imageboards there are occasional threads of 'i fuck a feminist' variety, where moids who date naive girls tell each other what they really think about their partners and women in general, which is pure hatred and joy of degradation. They can keep the charade of humanity on for years, and the women/girls really want to believe it. These must be a requisite fucking reading for beginners, an instant pinkpill, although many will still say these are just low-value moids, and they'll toootally pick better.

We also had some girls making apologetic videos directed at moids about how not sending them rape threats would be a Super Radical Feminist act and how radfem gets a bad cred and it's actually really about helping dudes. They called themselves radfems, never interacted with any part of the community - only with their mad moid commenters, and only nicely and submissively. I think they just didn't get the differences and wtf they were doing.

Some women legit only heard about radfem in passing on a lecture or some shit and instantly presumed to speak for it, or think that, since radfem is about liberation of all women, it must bend to accommodate them, not that they should do any the work. The fuckiest combo is both, like there was some korean celebrity who decided to call herself a radfem and then threw around accusations that radfems ruined her life because people were shitting on her for unpopular opinions and it's her right to be popular I guess. Labels don't mean shit this day and age, do they.