Author Sam Mills coined the term 'chauvo-feminist' while writing her new book, here she tells Stylist what it's like to date a fake feminist. 

Author Sam Mills book about Chauvo-Feminists 

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I noticed that he regularly tweeted links to feminist articles and positioned himself as a male warrior keen to battle chauvinism and misogyny

I brushed away all doubts with the conviction that I had been paranoid, mistaken, oversensitive. In the meantime, he was still merrily retweeting feminist articles online

Author Sam Mills coined the term ‘chauvo-feminist’ to explain men who claim to support feminism but don't – here she tells us what it's like to date one. 

Have you met a chauvo-feminist? That’s a man who acts like a feminist but is a chauvinist at heart