https://www.singularity2050.com/2010/01/the-misandry-bubble.html

Here's a lengthy blog post that I came across years ago and read again. After the author describes the problems that men can potentially face in the US, Canada, Australia, and numerous European countries, he presents his thesis that misandry is a house of cards in which a number of factors must remain present (like an abundance of money from taxpayers, men's interest in marriage remaining above a critical level, and a very high proportion of men blindly going along with the status quo without realizing what is happening) and that if these factors start weakening, so will this misandry bubble.

What are your thoughts on this? Here are mine. And what do you think needs to be done or needs to happen for this misandry bubble to deflate?

  • I really hope this author's theory is true. I would love the idea of defeating this man-hating that seems to have been in vogue simply by refusing to participate (like not marrying a woman, which isn't difficult for me because I'm gay).
  • Maybe I'm optimistic, but I think I'm seeing some signs that people are waking up. I'm seeing a lot more people who aren't buying into this whole unquestionable superiority of women bullshit (at least much more so than in 2011-2012). And these are regular people I know in real life who don't usually think about these things. There are still some posts on Facebook I see that are openly sexist toward men, but I do see a lot more people calling it out now. And there's the fact that the proportion of men interested in marriage in the US has decreased quite a lot in recent decades. And there's that "herbivore" movement happening in Japan.
  • We might be in the very early stages of this house of cards coming undone. Australia has reduced its financial assistance for gender studies programs substantially, for example. However, I'm still not sure what exactly will happen, or if the misandry bubble will deflate. I'm not sure if there is a country in which it has happened yet; until there is, I wait with cautious optimism.
  • The author's timeline was definitely optimistic. Maybe there will be more progress in the coming decade, but I wouldn't be surprised if a significant undoing of the misandry bubble doesn't happen until 2040 or beyond.