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Feminists say misandry is not real. I searched on Google to see if there are any articles about misandry. According to scholars, misandry is definitely real.

I read an article today about misandry. It's on scholar.google.com for free. Here is the abstract:

No published science paper demonstrates misogyny exists. Data on both implicit and explicit gender attitudes shows males substantially favouring females – philogyny – or, at worst, gender neutrality. This is hidden by elision with the wider notion of sexism; but there’s no evidence for hostile
sexism, and hypothesised benevolent sexism is fatally flawed in operational definition. The mode whereby sexism supposedly causes harm -- stereotyping (stereotype threat) -- has been debunked; likewise inter-
sexual dominance, removing any theoretical basis. Possible male harm by control is belied in women being found the controlling party. Misogyny / sexism in being defined circularly is unfalsifiable, therefore non-scientific conceptualisation: ideology itself actually hostile sexism (misandry, which is shown to be real but unseen).

Moxon, S. P. "Misogyny has no scientific basis of any kind: the evidence is of philogyny–and misandry." New Male Studies 7.2 (2018): 26-42.

I don't totally agree with this article. I think there might be a few individuals who are misogynists. However, I don't think there is any systemic misogyny like feminists claim. The misogynists are probably very few and lack any real power to influence society.

A few weeks ago, I took this test. I was accused of misogyny, so I wanted to see if I am a misogynist. I scored a 0 on hostile sexism and very low on benevolent sexism. The items from this test are mentioned in the article too. It is a flawed test.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's why they've latched on to toxic masculinity, that way they can say that discrimination faced by men is actually misogyny and continue saying misandry doesn't exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Misogynist is an insult against men who have boundaries.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

So misandry is real and misogyny is not? I feel a slight bias.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Read my post again and read the article.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't see any analysis of available literature in the paper you provided. Rather a hand picked selection of specific research. And just looking at conservative religious societies and not seeing any misogyny - is wild.

Also the credentials of the Author are rather questionable (cross-disciplinary science review researcher what the hell is this?) and the journal seems wildly biased. Which would explain how a paper in such a poor form got published and leaves a lot of questions open about their review process.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Feminists say misandry is not real.

None of the core ideas of feminism say any such thing. Whether, as you put it, a few individuals say this, is irrelevant.

Feminism recognizes that the patriarchy hurts women just as much as men. In the same vein, whether a stereotype puts women as lesser or elevates them as goddesses, it only serves to hurt everyone.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Whether, as you put it, a few individuals say this, is irrelevant.

Lots of feminists say this.

Feminism recognizes that the patriarchy hurts women just as much as men.

We live in an oligarchy, not a patriarchy.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Lots of feminists say this.

source? I've never heard anyone say this. I've also not noticed this tendency otherwise. If there is a survey of self-proclaimed feminists answering questions about misandry, please link it.

We live in an oligarchy, not a patriarchy.

The oligarchy itself is patriarchal. Just count the number of female world leaders.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

source?

Just search for them on social media. They aren't hard to find. Go to feminist spaces.

The oligarchy itself is patriarchal. Just count the number of female world leaders.

If we live in a patriarchy, it's a very gynocentric patriarchy. There are lots of programs to help women. No one is stopping women from being leaders.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Your post history is telling

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Deleted as rule 3 violation.