whom apparently care more about me than I care about them.
That's literally saying that you're inconsiderate of others haha. I mean it's fine; we all have different capacities and all humans are necessary for the human race to exist as it is.
But that's what that is... consideration for others is caring about them and their feelings, if you're noticing that others care about you more than you care about them perhaps they feel you've been inconsiderate and they are responding to a natural emotional response to having their internal experience invalidated like that.
Because if you're not considering another person's internal experience, that means it does not factor into your evaluations of how to behave in society and therefore you are sending the message that it is invalid input. It's invalidating to the other person.
Unfortunately, I'm not really the guy for these discussions of overarching social structures and propensities. I consider that "okay", like it's there the same way that background radiation exists behind everything else in the universe. But I find it more interesting to orbit amongst smaller entities. Individuals, and how we interact with eachother.
My own desire to describe simple human behaviour to the individuals exhibiting the behaviour lol...
Keep in mind also that the manosphere does often include men's rights activists and they don't necessarily have to be misogynistic
This is true; I am activist for nothing. Mens rights are human rights, and egalitarian feminism is actually pretty happy to examine how to make life better for men and consider the negative impacts our society has on men.
Another term for the whole body of work is "gender studies", which I think is better. But we seem to be needing a sex-neutral term for individual people to identify with as being a part of. Because representation matters.