Title: The 4 Reasons Misogynists Become Misogynists, According to Misogynists
Headings: The 4 Reasons Misogynists Become Misogynists, According to Misogynists
The 4 Reasons Misogynists Become Misogynists, According to Misogynists
They have Mommy issues
They're frustrated by the narrow definitions of what modern masculinity and femininity are
They've experienced lots of romantic rejection from women
They don't get it
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Content: They're frustrated by the narrow definitions of what modern masculinity and femininity are
If [sic] feels like no matter what you do, and no matter how hard you try, you'll never really be as good as a man. It feels like resenting other women for acting "girly" or "feminine" because they're undermining your struggle to be taken seriously by those you work with. It feels like blaming women (rather than the institutions that determine gender roles) for being weak, and it feels like being angry that your gender means you'll be associated with weakness. It feels like mistrusting women who conform to cultural expectations, as those expectations are suspect, and it feels like mistrusting those women who challenge the same expectations, because they're women, and can't be trusted. G/O Media may get a commission
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They've experienced lots of romantic rejection from women
[I had a series of] very long, agonizing series of rejections by women—I would estimate about 30 or 40 of them—which never got any easier. I'm not going to bore you by recounting these episodes, except to say that each of them further reinforced my own feelings of inferiority and my negativity and cynicism toward women. I was irresistibly drawn to these women and always hurt by them. I have been asked, "Why were you like this? Were you a masochist? A glutton for punishment?"