How can they say such awful things?

In Japan, "feminist" is often used as an insult, and many women preface their comments about sexual assault with "I'm not a feminist, but..." Misogynists argue, "It's not that I hate women, it's that I hate crazy feminists. I like normal women. Feminists are getting in the way of normal women." But for them, a "crazy feminist" is any woman who doesn't agree with them. For them, a "normal woman" is one who defends men who commit sexual assault, while a "crazy feminist" is one who criticizes men's crimes. On Twitter, a high school girl who said she wouldn't want to date a man in his 30s, and a girl on TikTok who said, "I was upskirted by a strange man. Because of people like that, I have to wear trousers under my skirt," were both called "crazy feminists" for expressing these views. Personally, when I criticized a famous Japanese rapper who said, "It's only natural for teenage boys to do that if they're in an environment where it's possible. In fact, it's the boys who don't do it who are the strange ones." in response to a news story about high school boys peeping at and attempting to take photos of girls undressed, I was called a "crazy feminist" and told that feminists should die.