I understand that misogyny is very real and has existed for centuries, but saying “misandry does not exist” is such a weird take to me. One of my friends genuinely said it doesn’t exist at all, and I honestly can’t understand the train of thought behind that. I get that women historically faced oppression, abuse, discrimination, etc. Nobody’s denying that. But acting like hatred toward men can never exist feels intellectually dishonest. Maybe because I was just so mad when they said it, 'cuz I was a guy? But also, seen some really nasty stuff on the internet of hatred to the core both men and women hate as well. I honestly wish most of them were jokes because, we could get along with the "o my god you're a man" joke or like the all men are evil" because it's satire hinting that our gender is just stoopid which I agree 1000% HAHAHA
Anyway online now, I’ve seen people openly mock men’s mental health, tell men to “off themselves” during Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, and just spread blatant hatred toward men in general and these people are woman? And there's something about it? Are you joking are you fr and most of them are just real hatred because of either what they experienced with men and or probably what got told to them. And the comments were full of people agreeing with it. Women do create fun jokes and Sabrina Carpenter even made manchild which is a bop! "all men are this" and stuff and I get a laugh of that because it's satire. But, sometimes I think people confuse: “misogyny has a systemic historical impact” with “therefore prejudice against men cannot exist.”
Those are two different conversations. You can acknowledge that women historically suffered under patriarchal systems while ALSO recognizing that gender-based hatred is still harmful. They don’t cancel each other out. I just think dismissing any hostility toward men as “not real” creates a weird double standard? and honestly it makes me sad that it's becoming more rampant now specially during Men's Mental Health Awareness Month. It's like they oppressed us so let's attacked them for fun? some of them are jokes, but some of it I just see as Misandry and too harsh like telling people to off yourself? or like telling people to abort a baby just because it's a boy?
This makes me sad that my friend said that to me, it felt like they're dismissing this men that didn't do anything? But, face an ample amount of hatred because of what our gender did before.