According to Science, Feminists Don’t Hate Men
Misandry isn’t real
Read this article, or at least give it a click because the author deserves credit for all that I’m about to steal from her:
The long and the short of the article is that a recent study found that feminist women don’t hate men any more than non-feminist women do. The study also confirmed that this went against public perception, which is that feminists hate men.
This is not a surprising result. Anyone who’s spent any amount of time with feminists as a group knows that we don’t hate men — we just hold them to a reasonable standard.
If this hasn’t been your experience, maybe feminists just hate you.
Because in my experience, not a single feminist has ever disliked me because I was a man. I have, however, had men dislike me because I was a feminist. Many men, in fact.
Which brings me to the somewhat unexpected result from that study, which the other post didn’t mention:
Feminist women did not have a lower opinion of men than men themselves did.
In this sense, feminists are no more guilty of the charge of misandry than men are themselves.
What the study did find was that while, on average, participants had a positive view of women, feminist women had a more positive view of women than men did.
Importantly, feminists’ positivity toward women and men were positively correlated: the warmer they felt toward women, the warmer they also felt toward men… contradicting any notion that feminists’ ingroup love for women translates to outgroup hate for men.
So bookmark that other article, or perhaps the original study, and keep it handy next time someone, online or otherwise, suggests that feminists hate men. We don’t. At least no more than non-feminist men do.
And since the men making such claims pride themselves in being purely rational and logically-minded, I’m sure they’ll take the results of this study in stride and correct themselves in the future.
