I Blame The Patriarchy

Q: But seriously, I’m a man and I don’t hate women, so what’s with the “Men Hate You” section?

A: The ‘men’ in ‘Men Hate You’ is shorthand, both for ‘our male-dominant culture’ and for the slightly trickier notion that (a) all men exercise — and benefit from — male privilege whether they want to or not, and (b) that the exercise of male privilege is misogyny. The Twistolution understands that there exist men who don’t actively choose this, but the involuntary nature of their participation in women’s oppression doesn’t make women any less oppressed by them. Sure, it isn’t fair, but if it bums you out, how do you think it makes us feel? Oh, wait, I forgot; you don’t care how women feel.

Do you?

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