I would consider myself a feminist although I resent the fact that the word has been associated with so many irrational and unreasonable ideas/people. I don’t want to flip the table, just make sure we have the same amount of pieces. The reason I would avoid using a label like egalitarian in place of feminist is because I think we still have enough gender related issues in our society that it makes sense to actually be both. The fact that so many people are afraid of feminism, I feel, actually validates my point.
Subscribing to a group means people will associate the good and bad of that group with you I wanna agree to some of it but not all of it.