Does フェミニスト mean something like "womanizer"?

[Wiktionary](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88#Noun)
says:

> (dated, colloquial) a chivalrous man

[Vice](https://www.vice.com/en/article/qkvmn7/is-dr-robotnik-a-feminist-an-
investigation) reports that someone on Reddit said:

> One Reddit commenter suggested that the text could be a mistranslation from
> Japanese, and is actually meant to suggest Robotnik is a "womanizer"
> (obviously pretty different to a feminist)

...

I can sort of see how "a chivalrous man" could mean "womanizer", but is that a
common use of フェミニスト nowadays?
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slang loanwords
Does フェミニスト mean something like "womanizer"?
In Japanese, フェミニスト often referred to a male person who is kind, gallant and
courteous to ladies, in which case the word had little to do with political
movements or social rights. All the three monolingual dictionaries I checked
have a definition like 女性を大切に扱う男性, and one of them explicitly says this is a
Japanese-only meaning of the word. However, as Wiktionary says, I feel this is
a dated meaning typically found in novels written in more than 50 years ago.
Anyway, the word has never had a meaning like womanizer or playboy.

I hesitate to say this, but in the last few decades, the word フェミニスト (or フェミ
for short) has become a fairly negative word in Japanese. As you can see by
[searching for フェミ on
Twitter](https://twitter.com/search?q=%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%9F&f=live),
people very often use this as a derogatory term that refers to women who look
down on men, women who blame men for every social problem, women who bothers
even other women by trying to protect women's rights, women who hate all sorts
of pornographic materials involving women, and so on.
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I think it's unlikely. Going from "chivalrous man" to "womanizer" seems a bit
of a stretch.

It appears that it most commonly just means 'feminist' based on what I observe
in the majority of the search results I find in
[少納言](https://shonagon.ninjal.ac.jp/), a balanced corpus. The corpus doesn't
seem to include many quotes from young people, though - the youngest in these
results is someone born in the 1970s. On the other hand, the quotes themselves
are not exactly old - the time span is 1988-2008.

The other usages are present, too, but I think they are secondary.

Interestingly, the quote below suggests that the "chivalrous man" usage was
already considered wrong decades ago.

> 「フェミニスト」イコール「女に優しい軟弱な男」イコール「女に優しい軟弱な男」、という常識的な誤りさえ知っていたかどうか怪しい --
> 松本侑子『私の本棚』（1993）

I would say the secondary usages of フェミニスト for "chivalrous man" and "feminazi"
are less representative or at least context-dependent. Also, internet usage
does not necessarily represent how people write and talk elsewhere. フェミ might
be pejorative but that's not too different from how "libs" might be used
pejoratively more often than "liberals".
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