Should we start a Man-Hating Monday column?

Prefer_Not_To_Say · 2014-03-10T20:13:04+00:00

In short: "I'm sick of being corrected when I'm wrong and I'm going to blame men for it."

This is about as childish as it gets.

MRB2012 · 2014-03-10T20:10:11+00:00

I'm So Tired of Men Always Being Right About Everything

Stop being stupid, and maybe you'll get to be right some of the time.

I'm trying to write about how a certain kind of male tone of authoritativeness of opinion is very triggering to me as someone who grew up feeling voiceless around sexist religious racist Republican homophobic men.

People tend to express their opinions, and this triggers you? What are you, a five year old?

But the men in my life seemed to feel so qualified, so sure of their rightness. Even the boys -- we were both 16, I knew they didn't know any more about electoral politics than I did, knew they hadn't critically thought about any of this and were just parroting things other, older men had said. But their surety was intimidating.

Children (including the author of this article) are stupid and arrogant, more news at 11.

The boys who put me on a leash and forced me to give them head one day after school were almost men. They all had a power that I didn't.

Psychopaths acting without regard for other human beings, more news at 11.

Today I am paid largely to share my opinions with others in my writing, but I still avoid debate, still preach to the choir whenever possible, have opted out of politics, stop reading the comments when the men occasionally come to tell me why I am wrong.

So you're still a teenager mad at daddy for not giving her enough hugs. Pathetic.

I craft my opinions on emotional truth, I painstakingly detail my own experience and how it has played into my perceptions of an issue. I don't traffic in facts and figures.

Honestly, that doesn't surprise me at this point.

Probably we need to meet somewhere in the middle -- more girls should be taught to trust their own opinons, and more boys should be taught to value empathy and acknowledge the possibility of more than one viewpoint.

Here's the thing. At the end of the day, various propositions are either true or false. Either George Bush was behind 9/11 or he wasn't. Boys shouldn't be obligated to put up with the idiots claiming he was, or the idiots pretending that rape culture is a thing. If you say stupid things, expect to have your error pointed out to you.

BlindPelican · 2014-03-10T20:46:14+00:00

The best part of this article is that most of the comments descended into bartending preferences.

Apparently, even XO Jane commenters don't take her seriously either.

2014-03-10T21:56:32+00:00

DISAGREEING WITH ME IS SEXIST

McFeely_Smackup · 2014-03-10T21:20:28+00:00

disagree with a man about liking a movie? OPPRESSION!!!

ThePigmanAgain · 2014-03-10T21:46:56+00:00

I stopped reading as soon as she got to the word "triggering."

Title	Should we start a Man-Hating Monday column?
Author	EdwardBil
Upvotes	4
Comments	10
Date	March 10, 2014 7:51 PM UTC (12 years ago)
Subreddit	Posted in /r/MensRights
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