What is 'misandry'?

[The Traveler]

202. Is misandry a real phenomenon? Sure

At the age of 58 I have run into real, honest to gawd misandry 2, maybe 3 times. In that same period I have known hundreds of feminists. That would include my own mother and three sisters, who were certainly not guilty of misandry.

My point is that misandry is real, and if you look hard enough for it you will certainly find it operating somewhere. It is not influential, and it does not represent the views or feelings of the vast majority of women who are active in the effort to secure women's rights. Nor do I think you are afflicted with that particular issue, as others in this thread have implied. I find that absurd, actually.

Accusing feminists of misandry is a familiar conservative canard. Pretending that white male privilege does not operate in our society is silly, but equally familiar. And while I am white, and I am male, and I certainly feel pressured, neither women nor people of color bear any responsibility for my difficulties. Nor are my difficulties made worse by their achievement of equality. The effort to make me feel otherwise about it is real, though, and essential to those who have an interest in taking my eyes off the real problems, and the set of people who are really causing them.

Trav