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In reply to the discussion: Young women, are you upset you'll have to pay for Viagra [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)for signs of "misandry," meaning having to share anything with the half of humanity they hold in complete contempt. That poster in HOF used the concept ironically, as a somewhat clumsy rhetorical device. The resident whiners posted a thread looking for misandry on DU and took an entire whole month to find a single example.
For some reason, some people are not able to distinguish between their own feelings of inadequacy and systemic discrimination. They could trash HOF rather than looking for reasons to be outraged, but that wouldn't feed the carefully nurtured victimization complex that means so much to some. They imagine a remark like that more serious than rape and domestic abuse because they see the comment as directed against the part of the population that matters. What they feel to realize is that all they succeed in doing is broadcasting their own perceived lack of accomplishments. No man who is strong and accomplished resents women, just as no white person who is successful or even reasonably content resents people of color.