Most men who are respectful and treat women as equals do not consider themselves to be male feminists.
Virtue signalling tends to be viewed as a red flag.
Most men who are respectful and treat women as equals do not need to label it as anything. That is true.
The same could be said of the female prudes who attack SWs as some kind of threat. It's more than just some "she'll steal my man" stuff. Whether they are the religious right ones or the progressive left ones, it's about power. These social/moral enforcers are self-appointed, sitting in judgement and condemning their peers, and those men who go along with their efforts are usually just dumb muscle. In any case, they want to climb that social ladder by stepping over on other people - same old evil motivations as you see with some guys.
Really I think it just comes down to good and evil. Some people choose evil, and cloak it in whatever disguising language they can.