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NNadir

(37,340 posts)
Mon Dec 30, 2024, 10:20 PM Dec 2024

This is not about women's rights, which all decent people - and there are lots of men who qualify - emphatically support

This is about an asinine blanket statement about a full class of human beings.

Ignorance does not "hurt my feelings." Rather, it disgusts me.

Take the title of this post, delete the words "men" and "women."

Why do __________ hate _______?

Or simply reverse the words.

Replace either of them with "African Americans" or "Italians" or "Jews" or "Persians," "Gays," or "Christians" or "Muslims" or "Arabs" or "Germans" or "Indians, or "Palestinians" or "Hispanics" to see what I mean.

If, in doing so, you can't see what I mean, then I really, really, really, really, really can't help you.

I am quite sure that there are many women here - intelligent, independent, decent, and highly moral individuals - who can see it as such.

Only a simpleton - a moral simpleton - can make a blanket statement of this nature. It would have been less offensive if the author of the OP had put the words "some" before "men," since clearly there are a subset of men who are misogynists.

In fact, I would then agree with the statement, since it is clearly true that there are bigots among men, among women, among human beings.

There are also a subset of women - some women - who despise men, but the overwhelming majority do not.

I personally despise bigots, independent of their race, gender, sexual preference, religion, and genetic heritage and irrespective of the object of their bigotry.

Got it?

No?

If not, I can't be of any help.

Have a happy New Year.

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