As I outlined in my other comments and as I should have made more clear in my original comment, none of that makes any of this behavior less narcissistic. Posting on social media is inherently narcissistic. Me taking the time to address this comment chain is narcissistic on my part, as was adding my two cents in the first place, as are all of your two cents. We're all trying to gain fake internet points because it makes us feel validated when people upvote us and like our statuses and pictures. Even making a stand for a good cause online is narcissistic. But that doesn't mean it's always bad, and there's more to that action than narcissism.

Which is exactly my point - by reducing these dudes to mere narcissists you lose focus of the important way that they're really unclear on the concept. They don't get that by essentially appropriating this hashtag movement to defend themselves from perceived slights, they're taking attention away from issues that really matter to people. They're operating in their self interest and thinking from their own perspectives, but so are the women who used the hashtags! It's just that the narcissism of the original hashtag was on the side of something good.

The problem here isn't the narcissism - everybody's narcissistic online, and in this case appealing to narcissism helped a big feminist point be made across social media platforms. The problem is the ignorance of the men using their own hashtag, and the fact that they haven't thought it through enough realize that the fact that they take it so personally is evidence of the problem. Calling them narcissists is useless and unproductive. Everyone's a narcissist online - let's focus on what we can/actually want to change.