I Hate Men

by Pauline Harmange

Misandry and misogyny cannot be compared, quite simply because the former exists only in reaction to the latter.

We don’t injure or kill men, we don’t prevent them from getting a job or following whatever their passion is, or dressing as they wish, or walking down the street after dark, or expressing themselves however they see fit. And when someone does give themselves the right to impose such things on men, that person is always a man, and it still falls within the heteropatriarchal system.

Only someone in a position of dominance can permit himself to be calm and reasonable in any circumstance, because he’s not the one who is suffering.

Misandry is born out of and nourished by anger. Feminism is the interface between private anger, which belongs in the domestic space, and public anger; ‘the personal is political’, whether we’re talking about the gender pay gap or which person in a couple has remembered to put on the washing.

it’s when men are allowed to get together among themselves that they develop their worst characteristics.

rapists continue to be awarded prizes, murderers appear on the covers of magazines and bullies hold on to senior positions in international corporations.