Why do men hate women so much?

[intheflow]

113. I think it's something primal.

Cavemen were awed and scared of cavewomen’s ability to lose a lot of blood every month and not die, and also to bring forth life and then feed new life from their own bodies. Gods bring life and death. Many early civilizations worshipped goddesses. In many Indigenous cultures, women kept/keep the wisdom/knowledge of what plants can and can’t be eaten, and which have healing powers. Again, god-like. How could man ever compete with such awesome power and wisdom? What is taking down a buffalo to birthing or healing someone?

At some evolutionary junction, men realized they were physically stronger than women and they didn’t have to fear physically weaker beings. God became male and moved to the sky, never to be seen but always to be feared. As God was a man, especially as Western culture started to develop, men could claim a closeness to the divine that they then denied women. Women’s periods became a source of disgust and disdain. Babies are tracked through the paternal line, but that of course is another form of insecurity because before paternity tests the only way to be sure of a paternal line was if children bore a resemblance to a member of the male’s family, and ideally, the male himself. Men restricted women’s wisdom and knowledge to the home for a long time, but the rise of the modern woman - who can control their menses like goddesses, and compete with men as equals on almost every level - has tripped some primal switch into overdrive for many contemporary men. Where is the glory of hunting, of bringing literal game to the table, when women can hunt as well as men with modern weapons?

I think it’s a subconscious thing that’s been nurtured and built upon for almost as long as humans have had consciousness apart from the other animals.

And before some fragile man feels the need to jump in here and mansplain how it’s “Not all men”, let me just say: not the point.