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> This answer doesn't make a point against the article It doesn’t need to… one can make (correctly) point out that Mein Kampf is a thoroughly racist screed wri
by yawpitch 3y ago
> This answer doesn't make a point against the article
It doesn’t need to… one can make (correctly) point out that Mein Kampf is a thoroughly racist screed written by an idiot without making a single point against Mein Kampf itself.
> and instead makes its point.
It certainly does not, and to suggest it does is almost as absurdly poorly reasoned as the article itself. Again, one need not attack any particular point in Mein Kampf to recognize where it starts and ends.
> I don't believe the article is correct here,
Good, it is not.
> but the question is valid.
No. It absolutely isn’t… the question of whether or not the balance of misogyny vs misandry has fallen too far towards the imaginary latter ONLY becomes valid once the odds are that a woman who dies by violence more than likely wasn’t murdered by a man… we are NOWHERE near that point, and shall not be within the lifetimes of our grandchildren’s grandchildren.
> And if it is indeed every word, the definition sounds mythical indeed.
Every word that isn’t simply conjoining two words that absolutely drip with “men’s rights” solipsistic nonsense, then.
Now that we’ve dispensed with the weak apologism, here’s your point against the article.
> Participants in every category—men and women of all races, ages, and social classes—were quicker to associate positive attributes with women and negative attributes with men.
The article doesn’t explain and I don’t have access to the linked paper to attack its no doubt many methodological errors, but if, for example, “positive attributes” includes “pretty”, “motherly”, or for that matter “nice tits” then such bias perfectly embodies misogyny, while conversely if the “negative” attributes are “intimidating”, “forceful” or similar they sure as shit don’t embody misandry.
I say this as a male quite often acknowledged as appearing intimidating and forceful, and whose career and life arc in no small way benefitted from those knee jerk biases acting in my material favor.
- raxxorraxor 3y agoMisogyny to me is hatred of women. It exists, but is a pretty rare condition. Same as the reverse of course. Prejudices might exist, but that is much more dependent on your respective social circle and culture and cannot be generalized. The article indirectly criticises the concept of using sex distribution in the workplace or economic influence as a metric for discrimination by policy and is pretty much on point with invalidating the underlying chain of reasoning. It also explains hypocritical applications of this reasoning as just working in one direction with this overall arbitrary line. For that matter, this creates numerous disadvantageous side effects too, but that is another topic. So it isn't even helping and discrimination increased. Discrimination of individuals that have to endure a disadvantage because of their sex. That is real sexism. You cannot just extrapolate your behavior to other people, it is your responsibility to take care of that and it might not be a systemic effect at all. You can make up with that with the individuals that were disadvantaged in your case, not with the whole of womanhood.