Misandry
Misandry means the bias, prejudice or discrimination against men.[1][2]
Misandry is a type of misanthropy whose targets are men. A misandrist is a person who hates men. They may hate men due to the belief that something wrong is with them, such as dirtiness, evilness or stupidity.[3]
A society or a system that sets women above men is called matriarchy.[4][5] Misandry is a form of sexism, which is based on hate. Misandry can include violence or discrimination against men.
Examples
[change | change source]Pauline Harmange
[change | change source]Pauline Harmange is a bisexual blogger who wrote the book Moi les hommes, je les déteste ("I Hate Men"), which sold thousands of copies in 2020.[7] Harmange believes that "women have good reason to hate men" and should embrace misandry as a form of liberation.[7] She also said that men could never be feminists.[7]
Reception
[change | change source]Ralph Zurmély, an adviser to France's ministry of gender equality at the time, saw the book as an "incitement to hatred" and demanded publishers to remove the book from sale.[7] Some critics disagreed with her views that blamed all men for the patriarchy,[7] which denied the role of some women who helped maintain the patriarchy.[7] Notably, John Stuart Mill, one of the most famous male feminists, argued in The Subjection of Women (1869) that gender inequality was incompatible with social progress.[7][8]
Issues
[change | change source]Manosphere
[change | change source]The concept of misandry is controversial among mainstream feminists.[9] Many feminists doubt the existence of misandry,[9] claiming that it is only a belief of those who are part of the manosphere – a loose group of blogs and forums reportedly promoting misogyny, masculinity and antifeminism.[9]
Groups related to the manosphere are often criticized by left-wing scholars due to their disagreement with manosphere's opposition to certain progressive values.[9] However, many believe that those criticizing the manosphere ignore the cause and effect of its existence.[9]
Critics of manosphere sometimes refer to manosphere's participants as incels,[10] which is considered by some critics as "alarmist, inaccurate, and misrepresenting" the problem.[10] Mass media have also been criticized for their coverage of what they see as the "incel problem",[10] some of which directly compare the problem to Islamic terrorism regardless of context.[10]
Prevalence
[change | change source]In January 2023, The Times claimed that half of the persons referred to the Prevent,[10][11] a British counter-extremism programme, were incels in the year ending March 2021.[10][11] However, critics pointed out that there was no evidence to support such a claim.[10]
The public data from the UK Home Office showed that only 22~25% of those referred to the Prevent were classified as having "mixed, unstable or unclear ideology" (MUU) – a category for anything other than right-wing or Islamic extremism.[10][12] Among the small percentage of the referred, a small number of them were seen as potential terrorists,[10] with some referrals dropped by specialists as they did not know the definition of incel.[10]
Some scholars emphasized that most incels were lonely, depressed young men,[10][13] many of whom were neurodivergent,[10][13] of diverse ages, religions, ethnicities and sexual orientations.[10][13] The social stigma is said to be refutable but repeatedly promoted by self-declared experts against the "lonely, depressed young men".[10] The self-declared experts were also criticized for misusing dubious statistics (e.g. cherry-picking) to support their bias.[10]
Related pages
[change | change source]References
[change | change source]- ↑ "Definition of 'misandry'". Collins Dictionary.
- ↑ "Sorry, Feminists: Misandry Isn't Funny". TIME. 2014-08-12. Archived from the original on 2024-03-15. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
- ↑ Synnott, Anthony (2010-10-06). "Why Some People Have Issues With Men: Misandry is not in everyone's dictionary but it's out there". Psychology Today. Retrieved 24 October 2016.
- ↑ "Matriarchy | Gender Equality, Female Leadership & Matrilineal Society | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
- ↑ "Dictionary.com | Meanings & Definitions of English Words". Dictionary.com. Retrieved 2024-03-15.
- ↑ French: Peinture de style kalighat, "Femme battant un homme avec un balai," Calcutta, Inde, 1875.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Hating men does nothing for women's liberation". Spiked. September 22, 2020. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
- ↑ Mill, John Stuart (1869). "The Subjection of Women" (PDF). Early Modern Texts. Retrieved April 16, 2025.
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- Rauch, Allison (January 13, 2025). "red pill and blue pill". Britannica. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
- Friedland, Roger (2018). "Donald's Dick: A Man Against the Institutions". In Mast, Jason L.; Alexander, Jeffrey C. (eds.). Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 115–133. doi:10.1111/soin.12328. ISBN 978-3-319-95944-3. S2CID 210440082.
- Ging, Debbie (2019). "Alphas, Betas, and Incels: Theorizing the Masculinities of the Manosphere". Men and Masculinities. 22 (4): 638–657. doi:10.1177/1097184x17706401. ISSN 1097-184X. S2CID 149239953.
- Goldwag, Arthur (March 1, 2012a). "Leader's Suicide Brings Attention to Men's Rights Movement". Intelligence Report (Spring 2012). Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Goldwag, Arthur (May 15, 2012b). "Intelligence Report Article Provokes Fury Among Men's Rights Activists". Southern Poverty Law Center. Retrieved February 9, 2020.
- Hodapp, Christa (2017). Men's Rights, Gender, and Social Media. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books. ISBN 978-1-49-852617-3.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 Kates, Naama (January 23, 2023). "The moral panic over incels". Spiked. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
- 1 2 "Prevent anti-extremist scheme must tackle incels, MP warns". The Times. January 20, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
- ↑ "Individuals referred to and supported through the Prevent Programme, England and Wales, April 2020 to March 2021". UK Home Office. November 18, 2021. Retrieved March 4, 2025.
- 1 2 3 Costello, William; Arevalo, Vania Rolon; Thomas, Andrew G; Schmitt, David (2022). "Levels of well-being among men who are incels (involuntary celibates)". ResearchGate. doi:10.31219/osf.io/tnf7b. Retrieved March 4, 2025.