Title: Misandry - RationalWiki
Headings: Misandry
Misandry
Contents
History of the term
MRA use of the term
Misandry and feminism
Gendercidal
Matriarchal
Class-based
Power-hungry pigs by nurture?
Appropriation as parody
Criticism
Quotes about misandry
See also
Notes
References

Content: He supports his argument with the fact that men have traditionally held more dangerous occupations such as serving in militaries or working in coal mines whereas women were largely protected from such dangers. However, this argument falls apart given the fact that men almost always held power historically. It is far more likely that men did the hard jobs simply because nobody expected women to be capable of them. In other words, it was an enforcement of gender roles. Women weren't valued because they were seen as being less disposable, they were valued for their wombs and their domestic services. Men's rights activists also have the idea that there is a powerful cabal of feminists (an analogue of "the Patriarchy" in feminism, with the crucial difference that it does not have any basis in reality) out to oppress men and take away their beer and their couches. On this understanding, any claim by feminists that women are disadvantaged in society is treated with outright dismissal coupled with a cry of persecution, in this case "misandry." Here, we respond to some common motivations for MRAs to make claims of misandry. Point

Counterpoint
Feeling excluded or outright rejected in certain spaces because they are male. Many of these men have been taught that the reason why women have the right to enter and be respected in "men's" spaces is because it is wrong to reject someone from a space on the basis of sex.