Then you (the general "you") need to take that concern up with people who profess those positions, and not throw it in the face of everyone who professes feminism of any kind.

I'm a "women are people too" feminist. I really have no interest in being your whipping boy regarding "man-hating bull-dykes" or whatever such bullshit. It's not accurate. It's not interesting. It's not even novel.

And yet, near-enough every time this stuff comes up, someone expects me to defend a position I neither hold, nor agree with.

Is it any wonder these kinds of stories get flagged off the front page?

I think this would more accurately be phrased as "feminism may not merely be the belief that women are equal to men." In any event, "equal to" remains awfully vague.