If you are in a relationship and your girlfriend or wife says she hates men, believe her. If she says that you‘re different, it‘s just because she finds you physically attractive. Once the physical attraction wears off, the realization will set in that you too are a member of the male population that she hates so much. Even if you give your full effort to try to prove that not all men are horrible, you will still spend the entire relationship walking on eggshells trying to remain her archetype of “perfect masculinity”. Once you slip up or disappoint her in any way, she will begin projecting her prejudiced beliefs about men onto you, and you will feed into her “I hate men” rhetoric with every slight mistake you make. I wanted so badly to empathize with these women, because I too didn’t trust men (including myself) for a long time due to the traumas I faced in my youth. However, surrounding myself with this rhetoric time and time again just led me to hate myself even more relive all of the trauma from my past. If you are in a relationship with a woman, and she talks about how much she hates men all the time, it is not real love. Real love is mutual respect and understanding.