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mm I mean it's hard to pin down specifics but that whole decade, most shows had the guy being an unbelievable idiot causing problems while the girls solved the problems, movies were the same, commercials were probably the last to follow. Maybe not exactly feminism, but the goal was to show women are as competent and sometimes moreso than men, which is a big tenant of feminism, even if it was done super poorly.
I'm not defending their use of feminism, but it seems like common media and messaging for basically two decades definitely did have quite a bit of "anti men pro woman" feeling. Regardless of the actual intent or "real" values of feminism, what many people received was "feminism believes men are stupid/hateful." I don't think it's a coincidence so many people think that's what feminism is. Likely just a failure of messaging, but I think that's where their definition is coming from.