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Ironic Misandry: Why Feminists Pretending to Hate Men Isn’t Funny
Submitted by Mastodon on Wed, 2014-08-13 21:28
Article here. Excerpt:
'If you’ve stumbled into certain feminist corners of the Internet lately, you may have noticed the word misandry cropping up. No, not by men’s rights activists whining that feminists hate men (or at least, not just by them). By feminists. Who think it’s funny to use it ironically.
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But the irony is all too often lost, despite recent arguments that the right kind of guys are in on the joke and love it. But the anecdotal evidence of that is not convincing, and those friends of women who like to use the word misandry might are likely to be a self-selecting group. Last year, a 2013 HuffPost/YouGov poll found that only 23 percent of women and 16 percent of men consider themselves to be feminists. Of that 16 percent, surely even fewer would find jokes about misandry funny.
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But inherent in this word “misandry” is hatred. And inherent in phrases like “ban men” and “male tears” are cruelty and violence. If a man wore a tee shirt that said “misogynist,” even if he were a dyed-in-the-wool feminist, wearing it tongue-in-cheek, it would not be funny. It would be misguided.'
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Ironic?
"Ironic misandrists" aren't pretending to hate men to poke fun at the MRM or attack critics of feminism indirectly. What they're doing is pretending to do the foregoing. They're pretending to be pretending!
The author of this article is a feminist, or at least says she is. She is right that feminism has a PR problem: it's clear why, as any hate movement has a PR problem. She mistakenly thinks that this "ironic misandry" is merely an inside joke that will be misunderstood by the outsiders. That there are so many "outsiders" itself is rather telling, but no matter, her mistake is she thinks the word "ironic" is relevant to the matter. It isn't. It's a red herring meant to fend off criticism of the misandrists wearing things like T-shirts declaring the wearer's love of male suffering. Agreed, nothing funny here.
But what is ironic but equally not funny is just below this article is one discussing Robin Williams' suicide. Totally absent is a discussion of how the great majority of suicides are men. It discusses teen suicide, depression, and touts how the ACA requires that health ins. policies cover psych care, but that's it. Robin Williams was neither a teen nor in need of better health ins. But yes, he was depressed. Nothing ironic in that.
I was only joking!
"I was only joking" is the lament of many a bigot. First, you say something against a race, ethnic group, or gender, and then you whine that people don't "have a sense of humor" when they call you on it. Well, sorry ladies. That defense doesn't work for the other haters, and it won't work for you.