
factual take: women are structurally oppressed on the basis of gender, which means that menās hostility towards them feeds into / reinforces a much broader & more legitimately-dangerous longterm system of violence and subjugation men on the other hand are Not oppressed on the basis of gender. a majority of womenās hostility towards men is a reaction to & defense against the exploitation women constantly experience as part of this hierarchical system
Nah not really. Most women I know who hate men, hate the construct of gender roles in society and not men specifically. They hate when men assert these gender roles of do things that put down women. They usually love men irl. Men who hate women usually hate women specifically. They want to objectify women and mad when women donāt like that. There are women out there who hate all men in a misandrist way, but that feels like the minority.
Some might consider me obsessed with man hating but I donāt view it that way I suppose. I feel Iām more calling out/recognizing the patriarchy and explaining to men why as a whole, they have contributed to most every bad thing. I donāt think all men are bad, but the over arching Principle of the āmanā, is. hopefully that makes some sense (iām quickly typing) Iām open to discuss
okay i guess a more general comment i want to make with this discussion overall. i think itās fine to want everyone to treat each other decently and not generalize and stuff duh. but i do think if you who are Not in a marginalized group more invested in āoppressionā coming at you From a marginalized group, and not on how that group is themselves being oppressed (or how You Yourself are being oppressed by the same powers that impact that group)
the difference is that women donāt have the luxury to just ābe niceā to men as a default. The way women survive in this world is by treating all men as a threat and thatās unfortunately how it has to be. As a man, you donāt have to worry about getting acid thrown on you if u reject someone. Or assaulted if you refuse their advances. Thereās a key difference here and it lies in safety. Iām not saying men canāt have these things happen but it is FAR less likely.
this post is dumb bc it's worded to invite disagreement but OP in the comments basically saying "why can't we all agree its better to be nice to each other?" as if anyone's arguing against that. the kind of casual dehumanization that's present in the way SOME men talk abt women, even when they aren't criticizing women directly, makes that worse than how women usually shit talk men. yes there are exceptions. yes they are both bad. they're also obviously different things
Men shitting on women usually involves sexualization, degradation, and overall reducing women to harmful stereotypes that have been reinforced through society. Women shitting on men usually involves calling out these behaviors and not appeasing them. To me, all of the women Iāve met who hate on men are genuinely hating on the patriarchy and it comes through as dishing it back out to men. They are not people I commonly meet. All of the men that Iāve met that hate on women are a dime a dozen.
yeah iām ngl like youāll have to give me a more specific example bc your post reads like someone saying racism against white people in america is just as rampant and harmful as racism against black people in america. like no the fuck itās not LMFAOOO are there black people who genuinely in their heart of hearts despise white people and want them subservient or dead or something yeah but youāre never gonna see something like black people en masse cheering for the lynchings of white people
like are there women who in their heart of hearts individually hate men so much that they circle back around to being very sexist/bioessentialist in their own ways absolutely. you are never going to see a female epstein preying on majority little fucking boys bro. itās just not the same on these systemic levels so even interpersonally itās hard to look at these individual cases and say they hold any significant weight in the grand scheme of things
like the fact that we DO have a female epstein (ghislaine maxwell) and all she was doing was helping her pedo husband prey on young girls and the fact that out of all the criminals we know were definitely involved in that shit, majority male, sheās the only one actually being held somewhat accountable (and iām not saying she SHOULDNāT be just because sheās a woman do not even BEGIN to get me wrong on this itās just interesting that she is one of the first and only one punished)
you canāt look at shit like this and think some man haters hold any water against it, or continue thinking itās entirely irrational to not at the very least be weary of menāif not individual men then he way that men are socialized. cause at least for me i donāt really say i hate all men i like being nuanced but i know if/when i do employ that sentiment it is not hatred or malice for individual men but how society raises men and lets them get away with
Lmaoo yea thatās a lot but I appreciate u explaining ur thoughts lol! For ur ex about black vs white people I wasnāt typically thinking about scale but at the end of the day they are both forms of racism and both should be looked down on regardless of if one has a lesser impact. Sure men being misogynistic is problematic and arguably more of an issue I donāt think that should be an excuse to allow some women to get away with blatant sexism just because it may be upsetting, to me that seems like
An unproductive way to go about things. For why I called them the same both ways itās cuz I was thinking of is it using a preconceived notion u have on other members of the same demographic to categorise others and the answer is yes so itās the same in that way. There have been times where Iāve like just met a girl and they immediately start spewing about how they hate men and itās always just such an uncomfortable position to be put in lol esp when Iām a gay dude so like
Theyāre not technically talking about me but they donāt know Iām gay so they are fully intending to/ thatās what it comes across as. Again this obviously isnāt all women so Iād never say like oh I hate women they always do so and so but Iām saying when it is I lowkey feel like thatās just blatant sexism but ig they donāt see it the same way. Also Iām not necessarily saying they have no reason to feel said way cuz I understand the misogyny present in society but like the way it evolves is
Iām sorry Iāve never killed a woman sooo treating me as if I did is generalising based on a demographic.. again Iām not saying their fears are irrational or itās wrong for them to feel that way however I donāt think u have to treat men in a negative manner just cuz of this if that makes sense
Sorry, im not saying that all men are killers. I was trying to explain why itās different when women shit on men, because the stakes are higher for them. Thereās a long history of women being objectified and treated as less than human, which has contributed to the general sense of fear of men. When men criticize women, itās different because itās coming from a position of greater social power.
Saying there would never be a female Epstein is the most out of touch, sexist statement Iāve ever seen, looking at your paragraphs itās clear that the same thing ur getting mad at is exactly what your doing, over generalizing groups of people, thinking you could never do anything wrong, thatās exactly the type of mentality of the specific types of white people/men that your talking abt, so what makes it ok for you to do it?
Yes I fully agree with this but generalisation is generalisation and both ways are harmful despite what origin they come from. Same argument for black and white racism, sure black people have a reason and history oppressed by white people but that doesnāt mean any black person can spew hate speech against white people if that makes sense
Exactly my point. Theres so much love to give to try and counteract evil people in the world, yet instead of doing that, people would rather compete with each other and say things like āthis type of racism isnāt as bad at this kind of racism! It depends on race!ā Or āthis sexism isnāt as bad as this sexism! It depends on gender!ā. Itās all bad, but people would rather compete and say āthis negativity is strongerā rather than actually spread positivity.
Itās like rich people who hate on poor people vs poor people who hate on rich people. Poor people donāt hate the rich for having money. They hate them for treating them with disrespect, legislating against them, and looking at them as subhuman. But rich people who hate poor people see the poor as less than because they donāt deserve the money. They donāt deserve their wealth because they see them as lazy and not special like them. It typically comes from different places.
itās crazy cause you clearly did not read what i said, or you read it with your own biases in mind. thatās fine, but i quite i literally pointed out how gishlaine maxwell is the female epstein, and talked about how she was aiding her husband in doing horrific things to little girls and women. iāve also acknowledged in my posts that there are absolutely people within these marginalized groups (black people, women) who are extreme and do and say bad things.
of course it is 100% possible for there to be a female super predator the likes of epstein, everyone has varying capacities for evil. but when i say there will never be a female epstein is that in the current world that we live in, i dont think its possible for a woman to have the sheer amount of power and money to do what epstein and all of his (MOSTLY MALE) co-conspirators did, to not only prey on so many people, but to also get away with it. iām talking about the bigger picture of things here
Bro my girl hates on men all the time and I donāt get defensive, I agree with her. Cuz I know itās not about me. It always comes on the tails of men upholding some dumb patriarchal bs. Itās different than when I heard some of my former male friends hating on women. Theyād hate women for being above them at work and being not nice. Theyād hate on them for being crazy when it sounded like my guy was the problem.
iām not saying women SHOULDNāT have power, SHOULDNāT have money, SHOULDNāT have influence, iām not saying that they donāt currently have those things, i am saying they donāt have it on the scale that their MALE COUNTERPARTS have it in the same way. again out of all the co-conspirators, it is only gislaine who is being punished. as she rightfully should be!! but what about everyone else
Thatās why itās situational and I canāt stand just hating on an entire gender (going both ways) because everyone has different experiences. And again, instead of spreading positivity and propping up the positives, people want to make experiences a competition and blame others, then generalizations start and it just gets worse and worse
epstein is only possible because society does not care about women and children and treasures power and money over everything else. women just do not have the same access to those things, whether they should or shouldnāt. like by all means if you can point me to a female led thing by this please do so and i will look at it and see where iām off base but i just donāt know if it exists
Sorry what? u had me until the Epstein thing. Epstein was an absolute monster as everyone knows, but what about the countless women found involved in those files? Please tell me youāre not saying they get a free pass because of gender? Or are you just saying that a woman isnāt as likely to be like the āring leaderā of that? Iām not commenting this maliciously btw, just trying to understand the whole point
now here is what i will grant you, back to the point of there being female predatorsāi do think we have an issue with taking male victims seriously when they come out and talk about their experiences of being raped/assaulted. i can see a situation where you do have something like this happening but the women get away with it because people think women canāt do this to men/that men canāt/shouldnāt be victimized by women
absolutely not saying the women found in those files should get a free pass!! lock them up too!! jesus christ. yes my point is that a woman is less likely to be the ring leader of something like this, to do this at such a large scale, and to continuously keep getting away with it w/ the power/money/influence they acquired
Itās the persons fault for continuously ordering the same dish that has given the same results. Same person could order a different dish from the same restaurant and it could be a completely different experience, or they could go to a different restaurant and still have a bad experience. Choosing who to surround yourself with is more important than gender. Every person has the opportunity to be positive or negative regardless of gender.
i don't disagree, i think for a lot of women throughout their lives tho they have negative experiences with men, regardless of their intentions and over time it makes you brace yourself for encounters and avoid situations where you feel you'll have a bad experience, a lot of times it ends up as just avoiding men and a dislike for them overall
Holy idiot, no way you believe women canāt be bad people because āthe power dynamics is not equalā thatās like the equivalent of saying one race canāt be racist because āthe power dynamic is not equalā. Neither make sense, bad people are bad people regardless of who they are. If your good your good and if your bad your bad. Easy like that
Totally agree with you. I just hate the constant negativity between genders right out of the gate because some absolutely garbage human beings exist. The generalization is the part thatās damaging beyond anything. It goes for both sides too cause Iāve known many people that are just tough to be around, but I always tell myself that every person is different. Just too much hate going around lately, so Iād like to spread a bit more love
yeah no i hear you and i agree like, you should see and interact with people on an individual level first, and not let your preconceived notion/biases about their demographic data cloud your judgement when it comes to them and how they are and how they move through the world. like i said i myself donāt personally approach people in this way and i generally think itās better to give people the benefit of the doubt
but the thing is that people are shaped by the environment they live in tooā¦and itās like, if you live in a society that tells men itās okay to treat women a certain way, and then you keep meeting men who treat women in those same certain waysā¦unfortunately whether you like it or not, even if you continue trying to give people the benefit of the doubt consciously, in the back of your mind youāre gonna at least start Expecting certain things are more likely to happen with men, no?
like idk to speak about myself more personally i knew a guy in uni who i took as himself at face value, but itās like. idk itās a lot to explain i can get into the full story, but the way he wrote about certain topics and some of the opinions he shared, did make me go like okay. so you Are a privileged white man and thatās where your manner of approaching the world and certain ideas you have are coming from, you know?
itās not like now i hate all white people or all white men, and up till now as far as i know, i donāt think heās a bad person individually, obviously he is more than just those things i mentioned. he was just a guy. but thatās sort of what i mean when i say people might be weary about how certain groups are Socialized, rather than like, the individuals in that group, if that makes sense
iād really just encourage you to look deeper into yourself Why itās concerning you that much, for a plethora of reasons. like iām sorry when i think of the people more concerned with perceived (or real) anti-white racism i am thinking of people who are just about two steps away from being white nationalists talking about some great replacement theory shit, for example. like just make sure you are grounded in reality and not getting too lost in any one sauce with this kind of thing.
Hate is ingrained in our society, specifically towards women. I understand your take, but itās one that genuinely holds no merit because youāre a man. You donāt have lived experiences as a woman getting followed home by a man, getting catcalled, being taught since day one to appease men. You said youād never kill a woman, but itās a genuine fear women have. Itās not a funny joke. Our shitting on men is because of our lived experiences, which doesnāt make it good, but weāre just dishing it back.
also want to say i think itās fair to feel uncomfortable when people make these comments and iām not saying you should just set that aside, do whatever you need to do to process those feelings, but then just weigh that against what those groups have had to deal with historically and still have to deal with today you know.
I knew 2 people who were domestically abused horribly by their girlfriend and wife. I shouldnāt spread hate to people of the same gender because of it. I just hate the monsters that commit the crimes and atrocities regardless of what gender they are and I love the people who are normal everyday passerbyās because thatās the way it should be
this is actually making me think of how like, honestly, even other men shit on men. thereās the whole stereotype about the overprotective father whoās weary of any/all men that come around their daughters and all thatā¦why are we then surprised if those same daughters then come up to be weary of men, too?
How is someone supposed to know you havenāt or will not? Women have been killed by friends, family, even their own children. Itās ignoring the mountains of context for womenās issues with men to say things like this. That is not to say I think they should treat anyone badly but it is extremely different from the male to female dislike.
Black people donāt spread hate speech against white people. Where do you get the victims complex from? Are white people disproportionately subjected to police brutality and still face exclusion from better housing markets ? You canāt flatten any racial hierarchies and say all bad when clearly we still live in a white supremacist country. White people can be prejudiced against which I donāt support but cannot face systemic racism
I never said they can face systematic racism..? But both can technically be discriminated about in different manners, both of which are bad Iām aware it looks verrryyy different for both sides but itās not good regardless is my argument. Just cuz Iām against racism on black people doesnāt mean Iām for prejudice on whites
i was trying to figure out how to phrase two concepts along the lines of "the way men hate on women and the way women hate on men are fundamentally not the same" & "there are many more men who casually hate and hurt the women in their lives than women who do the equivalent to men in their lives" but couldn't quite hack it. this comment phrases my thoughts much more eloquently, so thank you for that
And I think to add to that, framing them as equal reinforces a culture that silences women and makes them unable to call out harmful male behavior. And when your point of view is āitās unfair that Iām blamed for other menā rather than āhow can I contribute to a systemic changeā, you are still perpetuating the system even if you donāt directly contribute.
exactly that. as a man, when i hear a woman shit talking men, i don't usually feel hurt by it, bc it's clear that i'm not the type of man they're talking abt. if i do feel hurt by it, thats either bc i don't see what's wrong with what they're criticizing, or i feel defensive bc i'm being called out. if i'm not sure why a behavior is criticized i usually question (ie. why is it bad for a man to cry?) & i think they're wrong in what they criticize, i don't take their opinion that seriously
if someone i'm friends with says "all men do is lie and cheat" i understand that they're expressing the feeling that they have been hurt repeatedly and i offer sympathy. if someome i'm seeing romantically says that, i'll usually ask where the sentiment is coming from & use it as a jumping off point for conversation abt expectations and concerns in the relationship
Itās my way of acknowledging that individually, there are great men out there. the principle is recognizing as a whole, our society (arguably world) is built on the idea that men are better equipped with āhard stuffā such as politic, business, and money. while there are laws in place that physically stop inequality, thereās is still a deep belief in many men that women arenāt equal to them. Women were just allowed to open their own bank account without a male signer in the 70s.
with that, itās not a stretch to say people currently alive donāt believe women should have certain rights. those values get passed down, whether through verbal language, or through actions. the way children see how their father treats their mother. While I believe we have made great strides, as a 23 year old women, I hope we can get better for my future grandchildren and they wonāt have to experience the hate & sexualizing Iāve received so easily from men, just for being a women.
Iām not the OP, but O did have a conversation with a friend this weekend about how when someone says, āI hate menā itās the over arching system of men that is built on the backs of female oppression. Every man benefits even if they arenāt a ābadā man, and as long as they make no attempt to dismantle it, they are complicit. Itās not enough to not be like ābad menā. Think of how men attack other men by implying they are women/feminine. Insults like ādonāt be a bitchā āyouāre a pussyā.
And every single woman knows a another woman who has suffered violence at the hands of men who which ones are they supposed to not hate? When just based on the sheer number of female victims, any man you are talking to could another womanās abuser? Not to mention how abuse against women is so normalized so many men donāt even know theyāre abusers and therefore go around thinking theyāre āone of the good onesā
what kind of things have you seen women saying about men that make you feel like you're being shit on? i'm asking genuinely since the girls i've been around tend not to be the type that just make general sweeping statements about all men in ways that would be actually hurtful to anyone who's reading the subtext of their statement
right, that's along the lines of how i was thinking you meant it. someone else i responded to had a similar kind of idea they were getting at, that basically men and women are "shit on" by the other gender in different ways. it's not really fair to say the two are "no different" because they come from two totally different groups with different motivations, experiences, and social forces backing them.
itās also how these thoughts/statements/ideas about women end up very tangibly worsening their lives in ways that conments that men-hating women make just do not. i know i and others have made this point several times but like i really canāt capitalize enough on how bad it is. a bunch of women can call for men to be like, put into cages at a certain age because theyāre all fundamentally rapists or whatever and youāll never see something even close to that come to pass
but even the more āinnocuousā belief that women are best suited to care for children/are just baby makers can result inā¦oh i donāt know, roe v wade being repealed. which then leads to a actually much higher rate of deaths for mothers and children alike. or like you know, this idea that women can and do ātemptā men sexually without meaning to, leading to women not being taken seriously socially or legally when they talk about rape/sexual assaultā¦
and again these things end up hurting men in their own ways too, men like bringing up how women are favored when it comes to custody battles, which does absolutely suck and is unfair to men, but women arenāt the only/main ones at fault for that this ALSO goes back to the belief that women are just these inherently better caretakers than men are
very true, also not only is language used to implicitly attack women but also to uphold an image of "woman" as separate from "person" (which taken to its extreme & historically common ends, erases women from intellectual society) like have you ever noticed how almost everyone refers to unknown gender animals, empersoned objects, characters, etc as HE rather than she? except for things that are explicitly owned and used by men like boats and cars
like say everything you want about men hating women by all means again iām not saying theyāre any good esp if they really are just purposefully maliciously hurting men for no other reason than that theyāre men but i donāt think theyāre going out there doing mass shootings against women because of personal sexual grievances are doing family annihilation because theyāre āfailingā at some gender role
So basically what youāre saying is, the abuse that I just told you about isnāt important enough for you to care about in this situation, but we should ONLY care about women that are abused? In addition to that women should fear men 24/7 because of the multitude of monsters that exist across the world that are men. Thatās just wildly close-minded and quite frankly ridiculous. Iām not gonna go around and hate all women simply because someone like Ghislaine Maxwell existed šš
Ur point was very clearly āwomen are statistically more abusedā which is completely true. Nothing wrong with that. My point (which was the original posts point) is that random men who have done nothing wrong donāt deserve to be thrown into the āI hate all menā discussion as they have done nothing wrong and have no connection in any form to the monsters that you are referring to. I got no problem with what youāre sayin about the abusers, bury them under the prison, canāt keep a gender war going
I donāt mind that point. They can trust anyone they feel comfortable and they can be wary of whoever they want. But spreading pure hatred with the whole āI hate menā and men oppressing women is just going to cause more hurt, more divide, more anxiety, and everything in between. Itās already about as divided as it gets because people are more concerned with gender (for this post), race, status and ego than actually fixing the issues.