Are you a misogynist? Taking the test.

[hifiguy]

78. Very interesting.

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I took the "test" and typed my first, gut response to every question/statement.

1. Insisting the SCOTUS Hobby Lobby decision isn't a big deal 
it is one of the most wrong-headed and unjust decisions of the last several decades for all the reasons Justice Ginsburg set forth so eloquently.

2. Insisting men should have the right to compel a woman to abort a fetus.
No such right is tolerable in a civilized society, personal bodily integrity and a basic right for everyone.

3. Insisting a man's having to pay child support equates with the state's efforts to prohibit abortion.
Plainly, such a contention is false on its face.

4. Insisting men are more oppressed than women
See answer to #3.

5. Adopting the GOP idea of forcible rape vs. other rape and insisting the later (usually child rape) is less serious.
Rape is rape. Period.

6. Insisting that large numbers of women invent false rape charges 
A ridiculous concept. It probably happens about as frequently as lightning strikes kill people. Million-to-one odds against it, though it may occasionally happen.

7. Insisting rapists should not be punished with jail time.
Serious time in the big house should be the norm, not the exception.

8. Frequently taking the side of accused rapists over their victims.
Let the facts come out in the judicial system. This is not a place for prejudgment.

9. Insisting women's issues and feminism aren't important and don't constitute real politics.
They are just as much a part of "real politics" as economic and racial justice, and not separable from those issues.

10. Insisting women who object to rape porn or prostitution are uptight right-wingers.
Some are, some aren't.

11. Calling feminists prudes and Puritans
Some are, most aren't.

12. the sex-negative label 
May well have merit/accuracy in some cases.

13. Calling women c...t and b....s.
I don't. I have a rich vocabulary of gender-neutral terms for people who piss me off.

14. A whole slew of derogatory or sexualized comments about women's bodies.
In what context? Pretty murky here. Catcalling and other public exhibitions of a similar ilk are not acceptable.

15. Portraying a view of women that makes it clear someone sees their only purpose as to provide them sex
Too subjectively worded to answer.

16. anti-choice positions
I am absolutely and 100% pro-choice and have been for more than 40 years. None of my damned business.

17. opposing ACA's covering of women's reproductive care.
Quite how any thinking and reasonable person could oppose such coverage is something I cannot get my head around.

18. blaming women for their own sexual assaults.
No one should ever be blamed for being a victim of an assault or of bullying. Period.

19. arguing that violence against women isn't important
Violence against any human being is not acceptable.

20. arguing that rape isn't a societal problem
Obviously it is, and a serious one. D'uh.

21. Insisting a misogynistic mass murderer had real concerns about how bad off men have it today.
Anyone who makes that argument is too damned dumb to take seriously.

22. denying sexism and misogyny
Depends on how the terms are defined. Honest disagreement may be neither.

23. arguing that women in the US should be content with what they have
Why should any ordinary person, male or female, be content with “what they have” when the 1% are slowly and slowly immiserating the rest of the population?

24. Citing a study held out by an MRA big-wig that claims women say no when they really mean yes.
MRAs are full of shit.

25. Insisting consent is "elastic".
It isn't.

26. Insisting that consent is assumed.
It shouldn't be.

27. Insisting there is no such thing as male privilege.
It does exist, though I would argue it isn't as great as white privilege.

28. Men telling women they aren't real feminists because they disagree with them on an issue like porn or prostitution.
I will disagree with you (eta: on those issues) but whether you are a “real feminist” is beyond my ability to determine as the term is not a precise one.

ETA - Just for grins, did I pass or fail?