Sharing my thoughts, a recent idiom I ran across that I increasingly find useful in situations like this is "two things can be true at once." There can be peop

Sharing my thoughts, a recent idiom I ran across that I increasingly find useful in situations like this is "two things can be true at once." There can be people who are extremely misogynistic - but they can also have completely valid concerns and grievances that make them feel that way. "They might be idiots at best, but they might have decent reasons why they got there." Just ask any dad who has lost his children, wife, and property to an actually-false claim of domestic abuse. Ignoring those grievances, under the hope of trying to avoid giving them any respect, I believe risks actually increasing the number of misogynists because it doesn't address the underlying hurt that many of them may be experiencing, or the cause that will keep repeating itself.