Why do men hate women so much?

[malthaussen]

235. Very good.

I think that explains the deep hindbrain causes of woman-hatred very well. Then add in literally thousands of years of social conditioning to reinforce the primal instinct, and you get modern society, which can barely talk about women without putting them down in some way.

Some of it may also be long-standing revulsion to the variance in women's and men's social interaction, or maybe just lack of imagination on the part of the males, who can't seem to communicate with women very well, although among ourselves we do very well with the odd grunt or staccato phrase. Men are From Mars, Women From Venus, after all. It is common to despise what one cannot understand, deep-seated fear notwithstanding.

Thus the origins and deep-seated reasons, but Man (or Human) is supposedly a thinking species with some smidgen of free will. So why modern society continues to retail the hatred of women is the pertinent issue, along with the question of why so many women seem to think it's the way it should be. The OP was reading about the ERA; one of the reasons it failed was because Anita Bryant and her running-dogs drummed up a lot of sympathy among women for maintaining the status quo. So one might profitably also ask the question: why do women hate women so much?

-- Mal