In a recent interview (by Claire Lehmann published in Quillette), the academic and author Camille Paglia writes:

I am an equity feminist: that is, I demand equal opportunity for women through the removal of all barriers to their advance in the professional and political realms. However, I oppose special protections for women as inherently paternalistic and regressive. Women have rarely worked side by side with men in the way they now do in the modern workplace, whose competitive operational systems were devised by men for maximum productivity. Despite their general affluence, professional women of the Western world have been chronically unhappy for decades, and I conjecture that it is partly because they have been led to expect happiness from a mechanical work environment that doesn’t make men happy either.

“Equity feminism” (likewise the view long promoted by Christina Hoff Sommers) involves the political/legislative rule of equal opportunity: this is supported by anyone who isn’t some sort of Khomeinist religious zealot.

Sadly, that is not what “feminism” means today. Contemporary feminism has become what is sometimes called victim feminism: the outright rejection of “equal opportunity for women” and explicit endorsement of “special protections for women”.

What is victim feminism? The seven pillars of victim feminism:

  1. Demonization: expressions of hatred against men are perfectly acceptable.
  2. Falsification: falsely asserting the existence of significant levels of alleged “sexism” or “misogyny”—claiming without evidence that “sexism against women” is an explanationfor higher prevalence of men in leadership positions (politics, business & STEM) or for the measurable difference in male & female average earnings; while covering up systemic levels of marginalization and suffering experienced by boys & men. (See “The Trouble with Feminism” for a useful discussion of some data; see “The Illustrated Empathy Gap” for lots more.)
  3. Conspiracism: the bizarre conspiracy theory, reminiscent of classic antisemitism, that there exists a “Patriarchy”, a kind of global cabal of “powerful”, beastly males, subjecting helpless women to domination, persecution and oppression. This narrative of oppression is combined with hysteria and moral panic. This is a delusional conspiracy theory for which no evidence exists.
  4. Protective gynocentrism: treating girls & women as more socially valuable than boys & men; valuing the welfare and welbeing of girls & women over that of boys & men; assigning higher protective status towards girls & women over that of boys & men. (This is also sometimes referred to as “male disposability”);
  5. Infantilism: assigning lower responsibility, culpability and accountability to girls & women as compared to boys & men; this entails decriminalizing female violence and abuse; conversely, it entails denying due process to men when subjected to accusations—typically false accusations of a sexual nature or perhaps related to Interpersonal Violence (IPV).
  6. Hysteria, outrage, fear & moral panic: the aim is to stir up outrage, panic, hysteria & fear.
  7. Mobbing & vigilantism: the tactic is mobbing and vigilantism to achieve “justice” by subjecting the innocent to witch hunts, lynchings and mobbings.

In “Gynocentrism I: Social Gynocentrism”, I mentioned some classic examples of social gynocentrism (Titanic Effect; Damsels Effect; Boko Haram Effect), wherein girls & women are accorded far higher social value, protective status and concern for wellbeing, as well as much lower expectation of accountability, than boys & men are, while boys and men are treated with little more than contempt. Examples of institutionalized gynocentrism abound: educational gynocentrismpolicing, legal and criminal justice gynocentrismwelfare & healthcare gynocentrism; workplace gynocentrism. Each indicates the extent and prevalence of systemic misandry.

SOURCE: https://criticathink.wordpress.com/2018/11/12/the-logic-of-misandry/