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In reply to the discussion: Misogynist Trolls Have An Agenda, And It’s Not Lulz [View all]theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)I'm entering this discussion way too late in the game to know exactly what y'all are talking about at times (I have no idea what the "Meta" thing is) but I can tell you most of us here have dealt with misogyny on a regular basis, some in-your-face and some more subtle. I'm only tossing in an observation here because as chance would have it I had posted just this morning, on LBN, about some men in the UK who had been tweeting women politicians and threatening them with rape, murder and bombing. A poster, responding to the article, described these atrocious and intimidating threats as simply "adverse comments" from a few nutters and scolded the women who complained because what kind of administrative response could they expect from a free service?
This is the kind of thing which many might not even recognize as an example of misogyny. But dismissiveness bordering on disdain is what many of us have had to put up with, even here, year after year. Part of the problem, I think, is that many wouldn't even recognize the inherent misogyny in flipping off rape threats as just some "adverse comments", not to mention scolding the women who complained about it. It's the same kind of lack of self-recognition to be found in many posts I would consider to be homophobic.
Yes, over the course of time I've read some posts which I thought to be guilty of misandry but they pale by comparison to the number, tone and language of misogynic posts here. Condescension, dismissiveness, insulting women by referring to them as body parts (which is, IMO, a type of violence), insulting other men with suggestions of effeminacy, et al.
I've come to believe that you perceive feminists as the enemies of men (and that may be, I hope, a misperception on my part) and that's really a shame. Feminism is an ideal, not the banner for misandry, that belongs to people of all genders.