Something not so fun I discovered is the game of going on popular social media and searching the word "misogyny" and "misandry", here are my results and then I'll talk about why it's an issue:
TikTok
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Overall:
Misogynist | Misandrist
0 | 8
Google (excluding definitions of the words)
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Misogynist | Misandrist
0 | 6
Discussion Section
You've seen the results. Now keep in mind that you can do this yourself, have a go I reccomend it. The reason I included LinkedIn in there is to show how inevitably, this bias is finding itsway seeping in and even worse, being accepted, in the workplace. I wanted to dispel the notion that this is solely an "online" issue, it's not.
Now that we have that out of the way, why is this happening? If you notice, a lot of these posts say that misandry is a "myth", watching those videos and clicking on those articles you can see talk that misandry is not systemic meanwhile misogyny is. This problem is plain and simple: weaponization of academia
First of all, there is a very real argument that has been made (that I will not discuss in nuance as it is only tangentally related) that racism = prejudice + power. This has been made in academic circles and as such has taken off. However, even if we are to accept that the argument has validity, there is an attempt being made to translate it to misandry. Here is why it doesn't work.
- In 2018, 4,903 men took their own lives (17.2 deaths per 100,000 males, up significantly from 15.5 deaths per 100,000 in 2017). 75% of all suicides are male ONS figures
- In the 2018 Cycle, 196,105 men/boys domiciled in the UK accepted places at university, compared to 263,180 women/girls — a gap of 67,075 and 35%.
- In 96% of cases, the parents who apply to court for access to their children are men
- 86% of rough sleepers in England are male
- Men are more likely to be sent to prison and receive longer sentences than women for the same crimes
- Men are nearly twice as likely as women to be a victim of violent crime and among children, boys are more likely than girls to be victims of violence
- Only 51% of men tell anyone they are a victim of domestic abuse (81% of women tell someone).
In pretty much every field, men are pushed down hard on. So when you make the argument that women are somehow victims of power and men are not, it's simply false. People in positions of power favor women quite considerably in education and in the legal system, how does that track onto racist theory?
And yet, the real problem lies in how its clear how undertalked about and how hidden it is on social media. If you wanted to find statistics about misogyny right now, you could very easily go ahead and do that. If you wanted to do the same for men, good luck.
Resources
Here are some resources since I understand they are difficult to find. You will find they belong to reputable journals and are given proper care in terms of review.
https://www.menandboyscoalition.org.uk/statistics/
https://mdan.org.uk/key-statistics/
https://equi-law.uk/ten-male-disadvantages/
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