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In reply to the discussion: Why do men hate women so much? [View all]
Scrivener7
(57,617 posts)258. What is the proportion of restraining orders against husbands by wives versus against wives by husbands?
Many things don't explicitly state that they are meant to discriminate against women.
They don't have to.
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Yes only psychopaths would force pregnant women to die slow tortuous deaths.
Irish_Dem
Dec 2024
#230
Most American men would not have a roof over their heads if their wife didn't bring in a paycheck.
Ferrets are Cool
Dec 2024
#186
Probably a lot of that, plus all the other men who control THEM makes some mighty insecure
Attilatheblond
Dec 2024
#152
Women can create a new life, men can't. That makes them feel inferior therefore they hate us.
Walleye
Dec 2024
#67
I read a book a long while back that this was the theory. Women bled every month, somehow ended up pregnant.
mucholderthandirt
Dec 2024
#170
It makes sense to me that the patriarchy was born when humans became aware of men's role in reproduction.
CrispyQ
Dec 2024
#213
Your thesis is proven by the current incel backlash: Women don't need men and so the less desirables are rejected.
lindysalsagal
Jan 2025
#294
A couple thousand BC was when war and territory acquisition became possible with warship technology
lindysalsagal
Jan 2025
#293
Except the idea men were the hunters has been dismissed and been proven out women were very
LizBeth
Jan 2025
#278
Men voted in higher %s for Trump than did women, in every racial/ethnic category.
spooky3
Dec 2024
#57
So all the exit polls say. And if you don't like those, Pew will likely publish its Validated Voter study in the next
spooky3
Dec 2024
#105
Ty for pointing out genuine progress. Unfortunately Drumphf inflamed a whole bunch of men who do hate women.
electric_blue68
Dec 2024
#142
And a lower percent of black men voted for Harris and Clinton than Biden and Obama.
LizBeth
Jan 2025
#282
Men hate women because they're women. Women hate other women because they're jealous.
CousinIT
Dec 2024
#238
It's a girl. I am sorry. Maybe next time. As a society we are told from the day we are born
LizBeth
Jan 2025
#280
A few yrs ago, I wasn't sure what runs deeper in our country: racism or sexism?
FlyingPiggy
Dec 2024
#10
Sexism is also not addressed, discussed or acted upon as much as racism, it seems like.
CousinIT
Jan 2025
#285
I don't really know. Sexism seems to be accepted - even by women - more than racism.
CousinIT
Jan 2025
#292
Some men I suspect can't handle strong women. My uncle was like that. He treated his wife like crap,
SWBTATTReg
Dec 2024
#11
This. I don't take offense to the white woman things, because I am not, nor have I ever been a typical white woman.
onecaliberal
Dec 2024
#124
And there have been occassion when I myself say I am so fucking tired of white women.
LizBeth
Jan 2025
#281
I'm a man too, but I don't get mad about the statement. I think it's clearly speaking from statistical likelihood.
Lucky Luciano
Dec 2024
#63
Jeez, I hate myself for making this statement. To my mind there was nothing wrong with either wardrobe. But.....
EarnestPutz
Dec 2024
#83
Seems strange, doesn't it? I can clearly remember the crusade against the ERA
walkingman
Dec 2024
#19
All the wanna-be Alpha males can't compete on a level playing field. Can't cope; they've been shielded so long. . . . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2024
#23
Hey MAGA! Want more American engineers, fewer H-1B? Educate women, mentor them, and pay them the same. ERA. . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2024
#29
When one's only sense of power or accomplishment depends on another's subjugation...
Reader Rabbit
Dec 2024
#31
This is a supremely bigoted statement in my view and demonstrates and defines, if anything, hatred itself.
NNadir
Dec 2024
#47
"Considering your appropriate correction of my point about Republican me"
Abolishinist
Dec 2024
#159
This is not about women's rights, which all decent people - and there are lots of men who qualify - emphatically support
NNadir
Dec 2024
#145
Except women live it from the day they are born, but not allowed a conversation?
LizBeth
Jan 2025
#283
power over a perceived "weaker" sex? I have no idea. I don't see any difference but obviously millions do.
Evolve Dammit
Dec 2024
#62
My theory is men hate women because they know they need us to perpetuate humanity
Walleye
Dec 2024
#73
I think POTUS is unique. They don't think a woman can be the leader of the free world and commander-in-chief of the most
Walleye
Dec 2024
#87
Yes it is the slowest rate of growth as the authoaritarian trend is worldwide.
delisen
Jan 2025
#273
I know most of the people that I've mentioned. With the exception of the 21 yo
LeftInTX
Jan 2025
#302
Replicating patriarchy requires hatred. It may be unexamined but it is still hatred.
Scrivener7
Dec 2024
#259
Some men treat women like dirt and others don't know how to behave and don't have females in their lives.
rickford66
Dec 2024
#108
Oh they do.... they really do. And seeing it more now that ever before in my lifetime.
LizBeth
Dec 2024
#115
once women demonstrate their excellence in power, the cat will be out of the bag
cadoman
Dec 2024
#151
You are missing the point. Consider the difference between the rights of women and the
Scrivener7
Dec 2024
#181
What is the proportion of restraining orders against husbands by wives versus against wives by husbands?
Scrivener7
Dec 2024
#258
Perhaps it's the same reason that racists are so full of fear from the "other" -- it's because they are afraid
OMGWTF
Dec 2024
#215
We live in a patriarchy, which is a hierarchy, and therefore MUST have a group of people, women, to oppress.
valleyrogue
Dec 2024
#219
There was patriarchy in sub-Saharan Africa that weren't Christian, Jewish, or Muslim.
Elessar Zappa
Dec 2024
#263
There were also many matrileneal societies in both sub-Sharan Africa and among Indigenous folks in America and elsewhere
LeftyLucie
Dec 2024
#265
I'm proud that I'm not one of them. I voted for Harris and Clinton. What a better world it would be if they had won.
OverBurn
Dec 2024
#240
In my female life I've found older men respect women more than do younger men. Younger men
allegorical oracle
Dec 2024
#246
For a lot of them, these men can't bear the idea of possibly being dominated
no_hypocrisy
Dec 2024
#251
I think the differences between men's and women's responses to this question give a big part of the answer.
Scrivener7
Jan 2025
#276