N.B. misandry is not real because men are not systemically oppressed (uninternalize your reddit MRA today: men suffer some drawbacks under the patriarchy but ultimately still maintain it due to the large amount of privileges they receive under it!)

    • iridaniotter [she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      28·
      6 months ago

      Racism certainly has gendered aspects to it that some populations of women can exploit to do violence on other populations of men, but since this form of discrimination isn’t universally applicable, I wouldn’t call it misandry (because misogyny is universally applicable to all women, so there’s a false equivalence).

      • JohnBrownNote [comrade/them, des/pair]@hexbear.netEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        i’ve never even seen anyone call it misandrnoir or any of the other ways you could do that portmanteau. everybody just calls it racism and maybe talks a little about intersections.

        misandry isn’t a serious concept even if we could choose to use it to describe some of us having to register for the draft and so on, but the disposability of men comes from patriarchy anyway so there’s little interest in formalizing it further.

        • bobs_gunsEnglish
          23·
          6 months ago

          No, that’s misogyny because it’s an aspect of the objectification and enslavement of women to provide unpaid socially reproductive labor.

          If you applied the same sentence to the racial equivalent in 1700s-1900s America it would be, “If we are treating humans like property then black people are valued more than white people.” I think you can easily understand the problem with what you said.