Been reading through posts tagged “misandry”
Seems like the main opposition (as in, people who think that it somehow doesn’t exist) think so because for it to be real females would have to hold a disproportionately large share of power in society and be perpetrating it, which seems absurd to me. Quite aside from the fact that absolutely everyone is capable of bigotry no matter what their gender/race/class/sexuality/favourite wallpaper may be, are these people really that ignorant of internalised sexism?
When I say “misandry” I don’t mean “women oppressing men” I mean “SOMEONE oppressing men”. In my own personal experience most (but certainly not all) misandry has actually come from males who have been taught from birth that they/we absolutely have to act in a certain way, and because part of that training has included physical reactions to things they don’t like I very often come up against a literal threat of force when I say or do something “not manly” in male presence. If that isn’t oppression I don’t know what is - and just because it’s men doing it, or the patriarchy enforcing it, or whatever other excuse people want to come up, doesn’t mean that it isn’t a real thing.
Talking about misandry is not shifting blame to women or ignoring women’s issues, it’s merely highlighting the fact that society’s current views hurt men as well, and we all need to change the way we think because it affects us all regardless of what genitals we were born with.
