I recently watched this video on YouTube - a social experiment about how people in public places react to abuse and domestic violence in public.

As we can see in the video, most people do not seem react at all when they see the female decoy start assaulting the male decoy. In the second clip, a bystander man can even be seen laughing at the male decoy getting assaulted. Yet, the moment the male decoy gains the upper hand and fights back against the aggressor, that SAME man from before rushes in to attack the male decoy and defend the female decoy.

This has led me to the following thought - perhaps the biggest supporters and perpetuators of misandry are not actually women or feminists - but men themselves?

Studies have shown that women naturally tend to have an in-group bias, while men have an out-group bias, referred to as the "women-are-wonderful effect". Women seem to be inclined to support and prioritize each other in nearly any social situation. It wouldn't be hard to believe that a woman would be more likely to take her fellow woman's side in any mixed-gender conflict, even when it is obvious that the fellow woman is in the wrong. As the social experiment video has demonstrated us, so would men.

Men, on the other hand, would rather stand by and do nothing, or even feel Schadenfreude at the sight of their fellow man being abused by a woman. At worst, they'd even intervene and DEFEND the obvious aggressor in the situation, perhaps thinking that somehow doing so will earn them the woman's favour - a behavior that is often referred to as "White knighting". Men inherently seem to see each other as competition, and thus are not inclined to help each other, unlike women.

This leads me to conclude that, in my opinion, a lot of the misandry that's been normalized today is largely the result of the vast majority of men directly or indirectly partaking in it, or simply ALLOWING it to persist. Women may have been the spark that ignited the fire, but men, instead of extinguishing the fire, have instead simply kept adding fuel to it, leading to the state of things how they are today.

TLDR: Men themselves perpetuate misandry due to having an out-group bias and seeing each other as competition, leading to the state of society today.