• Misogyny
  • Male Violence Against Women
  • Male Privilege

I saw some idiotic and infuriating post on Bluesky earlier (a platform sadly full of misandrist bigoted idiots) and someone made a post that was stupid, ignorant and infuriating all at once. Claiming these are systemic issues and that misandry isn't real, female violence against men isn't a problem, etc. ugh. I know I shouldn't let what a random idiot online says but this is just painfully and insulting stupid and ignorant to think there's someone who really thinks this way and is trying to convert others (which sadly many misandrists have succeeded in doing).

I don't believe in Western nations at least that these are systemic issues. Misogyny and MVAW exist (as do their counterparts, the all too often ignored and dismissed misandry and the massively downplayed female violence against men/boys), but the notion they're systemic in Western nations has little in the way of credability. Not dismissing either misogyny or MVAW, but considering how much attention and condemation they both frequently get and the numerous actions taken against them by government and law enforcement, it's just not convincing that either is systemic. There's so much more evidence showing misandry is actually systemic (especially in schools and courts) and there being almost no abuse shelters that help men and the fact anti-male GBV is almost never acknowledged at all. Male privilege is a laughable concept and something I find isn't even really real much less systemic.

Claiming these are systemic problems seems to just be more misandrist victimhood and man-hating, and their way or marginalizing real and often overlooked and dismissed problems facing men. Their way of saying "I have it way worse than you and you don't matter." It's just a way of deflecting and causing division between both men and women, which I hate. I think we can agree it's another form of misandry and trying to heavily undermine the struggles and inequalities facing men and boys that misandrist warp to be taking away from women's issues when it's not.