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charmingly-alarming:

polycule:

It’s still judging and oppressing someone simply because of their gender.

I don’t get it. Fucking equality, that is what matters. Focus on that. It’s not about evening out the playing field, eye for an eye bullshit.

It’s about, being oppressed fucking sucks why would I ever do that to anyone else?

….. feminism hates you.

I mean. Yes. Treating anyone with bias based on their gender is wrong. And terrible. And detrimental to a sex-positive culture with gender equality.

But.

No.

Misandry is, like, a not a thing in our world. It’s not even a word, according to Tumblr. The little red line is showing up under it as I write this.

Feminism hates me? Because I’d rather promote equality for everyone rather than anger and resentment towards all cisgender men? Feminism does not hate me, and I think you might be confused about what feminism is, but thanks for speaking on behalf of a whole movement.

Also, so if something is not a word recognized by tumblr, it doesn’t exist? Just like polyamory, trans*, cisgender, and fucking tumblr. Got it. Why are we playing this game?

Misandry is a thing in this world. I have spoken to people who wish to create a society in which men are forced to experience the same discrimination women have been facing for years. And they are not uncommon. You cannot sit here and try to say that this sentiment doesn’t exist. And that is heinous. Everyone is so quick to write it off because it couldn’t possibly ever happen, so they assert that there’s no reason to even talk about it being a problem.

Listen. No one should be wishing oppression, repressed rights, and discrimination on an entire population simply because of their gender, for any reason. Ever. I don’t care how unthreatening misandry is due to its lack of potential to ever realistically happen, those words should never come out of someone’s mouth.

And just because misandry isn’t as powerful because it is not “supported by systemic disparities in power and status” does not make it any less awful to wish that upon someone.

Let’s be clear about something. Misogyny is not defined by “the power to take the hatred you feel towards females and turn it into oppression,” it is very simply “the hatred or dislike of females,” just as misandry is “the hatred or dislike of males.” Neither is worse than the other simply because one of them has historically been more powerful.