Since I am a (male) liberal feminist, I’ll give my stances on the areas where there are differences between radical feminism and liberal feminism. BTW, I don’t think liberal feminists care only about the legal system, and I certainly believe that legal equality is the only part of the picture.
I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. Liberal feminists also locate the root cause of women's oppression in patriarchal gender relations. The actual differences I can see between radical and liberal feminism is (1) the radical feminists still see patriarchy as prior to all other forms of oppression, whereas liberal feminists see it as part of an intersecting complex of oppressions encompassing class, race, sexual identity, disability, and any number of other things (2) the radical feminists have a much more essentialist view of gender that does not accept transgender women as women (3) the radical feminists are willing to critique women for their choices that are perceived by the radical feminists to uphold the patriarchy, such as wearing makeup or doing sex work (4) there's a definite correlation between feminist misandry and radical feminist identification.
1) I believe gender oppression is more ingrained in our culture and more widespread than other forms of oppression, though it certainly is “part of an intersecting complex of oppressions encompassing class, race, sexual identity, disability, and any number of other things”
2) Disagree
3) Agree to an extent. Plenty of choices women make can be influenced by (and reinforce) patriarchy. (such as women leaving their career to be with family, women assuming their husbands name upon marriage, etc.) However, I don’t think the sex industry is inherently sexist (it often can be, but not inherently so)—I would bet that gay men are just as likely to look at porn as straight men, for example)
4) Certainly not anti-male, and consider some but not all radical feminists to be anti-male
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