Let's Talk About Misandry, The Silent Hatred For Men That We Brush Off As Innocent "Male-Bashing"

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'"Male-bashing" is a term I grew up hearing often, and not just by women, but also brothers, fathers and uncles around me. No one took it seriously, but everyone of the second sex did it... the hormonal teenaged girls who were just entering the world of boys, 20-somethings who had boyfriends and ex-boyfriends, the middle-aged married women who were struggling to find the balance between husbands, kids, parents, in-laws, and work, as well as the elderly women who spent their evenings in the park, giggling over the daily spats they had with their husbands. It was all in jest, taken as a frivolous activity that women indulged in. Until, of course, a couple would break into a fight, and the husband, in a fit of anger would spew out the blasphemous words, "God knows what kind of ideas your female friends are feeding you!" It was in statements like this, that the innate misandry in this innocent act of “male-bashing” would be exposed.

A few weeks ago, a male friend noted, "This is the opposite of misogyny. Wait, is there even a term in feminism, for all this hate toward men?" There is, and it is, "misandry." It is a sadly under-recognised, and not a very well-understood phenomenon. But, the concept somewhere floats in the background of debates about equality. It gets overshadowed and silenced, because we focus more on male-supremacy and entitlement. But, at the root of it all, there is a dislike for men which drives us to fight them.'