Misandry
Template:Short description Template:Pp-protected Template:Discrimination sidebar Template:Masculism sidebar Template:Use dmy dates Template:Distinguish Misandry (Template:IPAc-en) is the hatred of or prejudice against men or boys.<ref name="OED">Template:Cite OED Earliest recorded use: 1885. "No man whom she cared for had ever proposed to marry her. She could not account for it, and it was a growing source of bitterness, of misogyny as well as misandry." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine September 289/1.</ref><ref>"Misandry" Template:Webarchive at Merriam-Webster online ("First Known Use: circa 1909")</ref>
Men's rights activists (MRAs) and other masculinist groups have characterized modern laws concerning divorce, domestic violence, conscription, circumcision (known as male genital mutilation by opponents), and treatment of male rape victims as examples of institutional misandry. However, in virtually all societies, misandry lacks institutional and systemic support comparable to misogyny, the hatred of women.<ref name="Gilmore p12"/><ref name="Ouellette 2007"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
In the Internet Age, users posting on manosphere internet forums such as 4chan and subreddits addressing men's rights activism have claimed that misandry is widespread, established in preferential treatment of women, and shown by discrimination against men.<ref name="Ouellette 2007">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Riggio p432"/>
MRAs have been criticised for promoting a false equivalence between misandry and misogyny,<ref name="Kimmel 2013">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:RpTemplate:R<ref name="Ging 2018">Template:Cite journal</ref> as part of an antifeminist backlash.Template:R<ref name="Barker p4">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Berger p128">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Sugiura p102"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The false idea that misandry is commonplace among feminists is so widespread that it has been called the "misandry myth" by 40 topic experts.<ref name="Hopkins-Doyle 2023" />
Etymology and usageEdit
"Misandry" is formed from the Greek Template:Tlit ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 'hatred') and Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}, gen. {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} 'man').<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> A "misandrist" is a person who hates men.Template:Sfnp "Misandrous" or "misandrist" can also be used as adjectives.<ref>Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref> Use of "misandrist" can be found as far back as an 1871 article in The Spectator magazine.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref>Template:Primary source inline
Translation of the French {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} to the German {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Hatred of Men) is recorded in 1803.<ref name="Krünitz 1803">Template:Cite encyclopedia</ref>Template:Primary source inline
HistoryEdit
The term misandry originated in the late 19th century. According to information policy scholars Alice Marwick and Robyn Caplan, the term was used as a synonym for feminism from its inception, drawing an equivalence between misandry ('man-hating') and misogyny ('woman-hating').<ref name="Sugiura p102">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Sfnp Newspapers in the 1890s occasionally referred to feminist "new women" as "man haters", and a 1928 article in Harper's Monthly said that misandry "distorts the more querulous of [modern] feminist arguments."Template:Sfnp The term re-emerged in men's rights literature and academic literature on structural sexism in the 1980s. It was in use on Usenet since at least 1989, and on websites and blogs dedicated to men's rights issues in the late 1990s and early 2000s.Template:Sfnp
Anthropologist David D. Gilmore coined the term "viriphobia" in 1997, when the term "misandry" was little used and there was no commonly accepted term for hatred of men.<ref name="Gilmore p12">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Independent source inline He writes that such terms as "misandry" typically refer not to hatred of men as men, but to hatred of machismo or men's traditional gender role. He argues that misandry is therefore not equivalent to misogyny, which "targets women no matter what they believe or do".Template:R Gilmore says that hatred of men as men is extremely rare in historical records, in sharp contrast to misogyny,Template:R<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> which he argues is a "near-universal phenomenon".Template:Sfnp
Marwick and Caplan argue that usage of the term misandry in the internet age is an outgrowth of misogyny and antifeminism.<ref name="Marwick p553">Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Explain The term is commonly used in the manosphere, such as on men's rights discussion forums on websites such as 4chan and Reddit, to counter feminist accusations of misogyny.<ref name="Ging 2018"/><ref name="Riggio p432">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Hodapp p4">Template:Cite book</ref> The critique and parody of the concept of misandry by feminist bloggers has been reported on in periodicals such as The Guardian, Slate and Time.Template:Sfnp
Use by the men's rights movementEdit
Men's rights activists (MRAs) invoke the idea of misandry in warning against what they see as the advance of a female-dominated society.<ref name="Masequesmay 2008">Template:Multiref2</ref> The idea of feminism as threatening towards men, encapsulated in the term misandry, forms a core part of the vocabulary of the manosphereTemplate:Sfnp and is used within the men's rights movement (MRM) to counter feminist accusations of misogyny.Template:R The idea of feminism as a misandrist movement has been cited as justification for harassment of people espousing feminist ideas, one example being the Gamergate harassment campaign against women in the video games industry.Template:Sfnp MRAs and other masculinist groups have criticized modern laws concerning divorce, domestic violence, the draft, circumcision (known as genital mutilation by opponents), and treatment of male rape victims as examples of institutional misandry.Template:R Other proposed examples include social problems that lead to men's shorter lifespans, higher suicide rates, requirements to participate in military drafts, and lack of tax benefits afforded to widowers compared to widows.Template:R<ref name="Schmitz 2016">Template:Cite journal</ref>
Marc A. Ouellette argues in International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities that "misandry lacks the systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized, and legislated antipathy of misogyny"; in his view, assuming a parallel between misogyny and misandry overly simplifies relations of gender and power.<ref name="Ouellette 2007"/>
Marwick and Caplan have examined the use of the term misandry within the manosphere as a weapon against feminist language and ideas.Template:R They characterize men's rights activists' use of the termTemplate:Emdashas a gender-reversed counterpart to misogynyTemplate:Emdashas an appropriation of leftist identity politics.Template:Sfnp Marwick and Caplan also argue that coverage of the discourse of misandry by mainstream journalists serves to reinforce the MRM's framing of feminist activism as oppressive toward men, along with its denial of institutionalized sexism against women.Template:Sfnp
RacializationEdit
Template:Further Misandry can be racialized.<ref name="Ouellette 2007"/> According to some researchers in Black male studies such as Tommy J. Curry, Black men and boys face anti-Black misandry.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Curry 2018">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> E. C. Krell, a gender researcher, uses the term racialized transmisandry describing the experience of Black transmasculine people.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
ResearchEdit
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"Ambivalence toward Men Inventory"Edit
Glick and Fiske developed psychometric constructs to measure the attitudes of individuals towards men in their Ambivalence toward Men Inventory, AMI, which includes a factor Hostility toward Men. These metrics were based on a small group discussion with women which identified factors, these number of questions were then reduced using statistical methods. Hostility toward Men was split into three factors: Resentment of Paternalism, the belief men supported male power; Compensatory Gender Differentiation, the belief that men were supported by women; and Heterosexual Hostility, which looked at beliefs that men were likely to engage in hostile actions.<ref name="Glick 2016">Template:Cite journal</ref> The combined construct, Hostility toward Men, was found to be inversely correlated with measures of gender equality when comparing difference countries<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> and in a study with university students, self-describing feminists were found to have a lower score.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Criminal justice systemEdit
In the United States, men tend to receive longer sentences than women for committing the same crimes, although the disparity is more pronounced for minor offenses, and is also dependent on the race of the perpetrator.Template:R Criminologist Nathan A. Kruis of Pennsylvania State University and colleagues write that a body of research suggests the presence of "potential institutional misandry" in the U.S. criminal justice system.<ref name="Kruis 2024">Template:Cite journal</ref>
In literatureEdit
Ancient Greek literatureEdit
Classicist Froma Zeitlin writes:
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ShakespeareEdit
Literary critic Harold Bloom argued that even though the word misandry is relatively unheard of in literature, it is not hard to find implicit, even explicit, misandry. In reference to the works of Shakespeare, Bloom argued:<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> <templatestyles src="Template:Blockquote/styles.css" />
I cannot think of one instance of misogyny whereas I would argue that misandry is a strong element. Shakespeare makes perfectly clear that women in general have to marry down and that men are narcissistic and not to be trusted and so forth. On the whole, he gives us a darker vision of human males than human females.{{#if:|{{#if:|}}
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Modern literatureEdit
Sociologist Anthony Synnott argues that there is a tendency in literature to represent men as villains and women as victims and argues that there is a market for "anti-male" novels with no corresponding "anti-female" market, citing The Women's Room, by Marilyn French, and The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. He gives examples of comparisons of men to Nazi prison guards as a common theme in literature.<ref name="Synnott 2016">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp
Racialized misandry occurs in both "high" and "low" culture and literature. For instance, African-American men have often been disparagingly portrayed as either infantile or as eroticized and hyper-masculine, depending on prevailing cultural stereotypes.Template:R
Julie M. Thompson, a feminist author, connects misandry with envy of men, in particular "penis envy", a term coined by Sigmund Freud in 1908, in his theory of female sexual development.<ref> Emphasis added. Template:Cite book</ref> Nancy Kang has discussed "the misandric impulse" in relation to the works of Toni Morrison.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
In his book, Gender and Judaism: The Transformation of Tradition, Harry Brod, a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Northern Iowa, writes:<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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In the introduction to The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer writes that this is Superman's joke on the rest of us. Clark is Superman's vision of what other men are really like. We are scared, incompetent, and powerless, particularly around women. Though Feiffer took the joke good-naturedly, a more cynical response would see here the Kryptonian's misanthropy, his misandry embodied in Clark and his misogyny in his wish that Lois be enamored of Clark (much like Oberon takes out hostility toward Titania by having her fall in love with an ass in Shakespeare's Midsummer-Night's Dream).{{#if:|{{#if:|}}
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In 2020, the explicitly misandric essay Moi les hommes, je les déteste (I Hate Men) by the French writer Pauline Harmange caused controversy in France after a government official threatened its publisher with criminal prosecution.<ref name="Flood 2020">Template:Cite news</ref>
In feminismEdit
Opponents of feminism often argue that feminism is misandrist; citing examples such as opposition to shared parenting by NOW, or opposition to equal rape and domestic violence laws. The validity of these perceptions and of the concept has been claimedTemplate:By whom as promoting a false equivalence between misandry and misogyny.<ref name="Kimmel 2013" /> Radical feminism has often been associated with misandry in the public consciousness. However, radical feminist arguments have also been misinterpreted, and individual radical feminists such as Valerie Solanas, best known for her attempted assassination of artist Andy Warhol in 1968, have historically had a higher profile in popular culture than within feminist scholarship.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Failed verification
Historian Alice Echols argues that the misandry displayed by Solanas in her tract the SCUM Manifesto was not typical for radical feminists of the time: "Solanas's unabashed misandry—especially her belief in men's biological inferiority—her endorsement of relationships between 'independent women,' and her dismissal of sex as 'the refuge of the mindless' contravened the sort of radical feminism which prevailed in most women's groups across the country."<ref name="Echols p104">Template:Cite book</ref> Radical feminist Andrea Dworkin criticized what she called a biological determinist strand that she found "with increasing frequency in feminist circles"; according to Dworkin, this included the view that males are biologically inferior to women and violent by nature, requiring a gendercide to allow for the emergence of a "new Übermensch Womon".<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>Template:Primary source inline
Melinda Kanner and Kristin J. Anderson argue that "man-hater feminist" represents the popular antifeminist myth which has no any scientific evidences, and it's rather the antifeminists who perhaps hate men.<ref name="Kanner 2010">Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Explain
Feminist author bell hooks writes that the contemporary feminist movement was from its beginnings portrayed in the mass media as man-hating, even though anti-male factions were a small minority of women's liberation advocates.<ref name="hooks 2005 p108">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="hooks 2000 p69">Template:Cite book</ref> Hooks argues that liberal feminists' demonization of men as all-powerful misogynist oppressors was a product of bourgeois white women's envy of the privileges held by upper-class white men, and that such anti-male sentiments "alienated many poor and working class women, particularly non-white women" from the movement.<ref name="hooks 1984 p67">Template:Cite book</ref> She writes that anti-male factions received outsized attention from the mass media, leading the men's movement to take an anti-female stance which "mirrored the most negative aspects" of the women's movement.<ref name="hooks 2000 p69"/>
Sociologist Anthony Synnott argues that certain forms of feminism present misandristic view of gender. He argues that men are presented as having power over others regardless of the actual power they possess<ref name="Synnott 2016" />Template:Rp and that some feminists define the experience of being male inaccurately through writing on masculinity. He further argues that some forms of feminism create an in-group of women, simplifies the nuances of gender issues, demonizes those who are not feminists and legimitizes victimization by way of retributive justice.<ref name="Synnott 2016" />Template:Rp Reviewing Synnott, Roman Kuhar argues that Synnott might not accurately represent the views of feminism, commenting that "whether it re-thinks men in a manner in which men have not been thought of in feminist theory, is another question."<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
Sociologist Allan G. Johnson argues in The Gender Knot: Unraveling our Patriarchal Legacy that accusations of man-hating have been used to put down feminists and to shift attention onto men, reinforcing a male-centered culture.<ref name="Johnson p107">Template:Cite book</ref> Johnson posits that culture offers no comparable anti-male ideology to misogyny and that "people often confuse men as individuals with men as a dominant and privileged category of people. Given the reality of women's oppression, male privilege, and men's enforcement of both, it's hardly surprising that Template:Em woman should have moments where she resents or even hates 'men.Template:' "Template:R [emphasis in original]
A meta-analysis in 2023 published in the journal Psychology of Women Quarterly investigated the stereotype of feminists' attitudes to men and concluded that feminist views of men were no different than that of non-feminists or men towards men, and termed the phenomenon the Template:Em: "We term the focal stereotype the misandry myth in light of the evidence that it is false and widespread, and discuss its implications for the movement."<ref name="Hopkins-Doyle 2023">Template:Cite journal</ref>
See alsoEdit
- Airline seating sex discrimination controversy
- Androcide
- Are All Men Pedophiles?
- Bachelor tax
- Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them! controversy
- Circumcision controversies
- Female chauvinism
- Gynocentrism
- Male expendability
- Men's studies
- Reverse sexism
- Separatist feminism
- Straw feminism
- TERF
- Testosterone poisoning
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