What is 'misandry'?

[Scott6113]

178. Yes and yes

We disagree less than you might think. The big picture shows that women have it worse than men. I wasn't trying to say otherwise. I was trying to say that when we look at generalities, particulars get lost. Acting as though outliers do not exist creates injustice.

I remember in the 70s there was a billboard up near Fenway Park in Boston. It showed a glowering Ayatollah Khomeini with the caption: Fight Back: Drive 55. And I thought, ah, so we have been given permission to hate the Arab, the Muslim. It was no longer politically correct to tell n-word jokes, Pollack jokes, etc., but a certain kind of person always needs a scapegoat, an other, a stranger, someone different to blame.

That's what's wrong. And there are lots of women who make nasty comments about men as a group. They're angry, they defame, they denigrate. Defamation leads to dehumanization, then real harm. I've met female divorce lawyers who had a bad relationship, and for the rest of their lives were hell-bent on making all men pay. It is not OK. Somehow they think feminism gives them the right to think of men the way blacks were considered 75 years ago. Are they the majority? No.

No it is not equivalent to what women have suffered. Two wrongs don't make a right, however. There is a better way, a higher way. If women displace men in social position, and treat men as they were treated, where is the progress in that?

Wouldn't it be better to correct sexism and all that goes with it like lesser pay without the old winner-loser paradigm?