History of Feminism
In reply to the discussion: If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy? [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)"Feminism is, in essence, a social justice movementit wants to take the side of the alienated and the marginalized, and that includes alienated and marginalized men. Please stop turning us against you."
Because it is not, and it does not, and that is what some of the men complain about.
And the following line illustrates it
"It is nearly impossible to address problems facing womenespecially problems in which men are even tangentially culpable ..."
That, right there, is a blanket indictment, a sweeping negative generalization of ALL men. It's like the difference between
1) I hate men who constantly make sexist jokes or I hate it when men make sexist jokes and all the other men laugh
and
2) Fu%&ing men, they are always making sexist jokes.
Are MEN tangentially culpable or are SOME men tangentially culpable or even MOST men tangentially culpable? Because if it is the first claim, then that seems to me to be anti-men, or, in other words, misandry. And when men complain about misandry on an internet forum, they are not usually making the claim that misandry is a huge social problem, or that misandry has ruined their life. No, the claim is rather, that misandry is often tolerated, if not embraced, by some on the left. And some men, for some reason, do not find that to be copacetic. Go figure.