Good Article — Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry

mewacketergi · 2020-04-11T23:53:42+00:00

The most interesting passages:

Michael Kimmel, who owns Men's Studies in the States, is particularly misandric, opening his book Manhood in America with a long list of male villains — not a hero, hard-working man, good father, Nobel Peace Prize winner, not a useful Newton, Darwin, Freud, Einstein, Gandhi, Mandela, King, Carnegie Medal winner in sight. It's amazing. Then in Men's Lives, he adds more villains with this suggestion: "Perhaps we should slap a warning label on penises across the land. WARNING: OPERATING THIS INSTRUMENT CAN BE DANGEROUS TO YOUR AND OTHERS' HEALTH" (2004:565. His emphasis). One wonders if he is wearing this label on his own penis. Does he practice what he preaches? Oh well. But such is the "scholarship" on men these days: dehumanizing.

More: Two of the more misandric and dehumanizing observations are the University of Toronto, which hosts the Institute for Women and Gender. Hmm. A number of other universities demonstrate the same misandry. And in March 2009, I received an invitation to attend the Canadian Conference on the Prevention of Domestic Homicides; but it was hosted by the Centre for Research and Education on Violence against Women and Children — no mention of men except by implication as committing all the violence but never the victim. Back to the binaries again: men bad, women good; and no awareness that women commit about 10 percent of all homicides, and 15-25 percent of the domestic homicides and that (Canadian) mothers commit the majority of domestic homicides of children under 12.

To conclude: Misandry is everywhere, culturally acceptable, even normative, largely invisible, taught directly and indirectly by men and women, blind to reality, very damaging and dangerous to men and women in different ways and de-humanizing. This post is to help make it visible and to deal with it — as we have dealt with, or tried to deal with, misogyny, racism, and homophobia.

Strikester101 · 2020-04-12T07:13:13+00:00

JFC, this article is so uncanny in describing why I feel uncomfortable around discussions of gender equality, especially when it comes to misandry.

I may continue my thoughts later, but the article hits the nail efficiently.

For starters, if you're going to associate violence and other social ills to men and masculinity as well as downplay the positive aspects (you know, majority of scientists, philosophers, builders of society, e.t.c are men) by insinuating it's due to privilege (such as "greater" opportunities like education), it just causes disillusionment at best and depressive outlook on life at worst among boys and men.

GaborFrame · 2020-04-12T13:09:34+00:00

Oh, look at all the fragile masculinity exposed in that blog post. /s

Blauwpetje · 2020-04-25T18:51:21+00:00

One gets exhausted seeing this article is ten years old and things only got worse since.

Title	Good Article — Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry
Author	mewacketergi
Upvotes	22
Comments	20
Date	April 11, 2020 11:52 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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