I Hate Men

by Pauline Harmange

Anger at being treated as an inferior is not remotely comparable to the violence committed by the men who humiliate, rape and kill us, or even the violence committed by the men who ignore us, turn their backs on us and mock us. We have everything to gain by distancing ourselves from the limited role of the patient, gentle, almost passive woman, and insisting that men make the effort to become better people.

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

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.

There’s a moral to this story, and an ideal we should all be working towards: we have to stop putting ourselves down, be bolder, and always, always ask ourselves,

whenever we’re overcome by doubt: What would the mediocre white dude do?