Casual misandry
Casual misandry is a phenomenon in which unfounded negative claims are made about men as a group or men as a group are insulted or put down. Both men and women can engage in this behaviour.
Casual misandry is a phenomenon in which unfounded negative claims are made about men as a group or men as a group are insulted or put down. Both men and women can engage in this behaviour.
Editorial note: Given the state of the aptly named “criminal justice” system today, we think Inmate #565862’s harrowing story should give anyone pause. Is this really what we want to be doing to millions of men, sometimes based on allegations alone?—Eds. I’m the man in the box, Buried in my shit, Won’t you come and …
The box: Life in prison, according to Inmate #565862 Read More »
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Author’s Note: There’s been a rapidly ramped-up cultural shift toward pathologizing male initiation of contact on multiple levels, starting with initial approaches to get women’s attentions. We are told that “street harassment” is not only culturally normative and epidemic but part of the “rape culture” continuum, emblematic of a wider cosmological worldview that men are …
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Heather Mallick has a long history of hateful public bigotry.
“In the end, I really didn’t have a choice, even though I didn’t do what my ex-wife said I did. That, however, was of little concern to the career-minded police, prosecutor, defense attorney, and judge involved in my case.”
It’s interesting how their honest social experiments so frequently wind up challenging bigoted cultural narratives, isn’t it?