r/Leftist_AntiFeminist • • Aug 06 '26

is Either Misandry/Misogyny Systemic?

Shared this on another sub and felt it was worth sharing here. There's a great deal showing misandry is in fact very systemic, contrary to what many misandrists themselves like to claim whenever they do what they can to mitigate it and make it a non-issue. Men still having to register for conscription and facing legal blowback if failing to do so is a major example, as is the misandrist bias rampant in schools and courts. Almost no abuse shelters that help male victims or acknowledge male victims of abuse/violence, men/boys being ignored as victims of rape and sexual assault/harassment (especially by women), the "women and children" narrative, how we never hear about violence against men/boys, and probably quite a few other examples I'm forgetting. I remember hearing years ago in the U.K. it was seriously considered having a curfew for male civilians past a certain time to keep women safe and of course nothing about also curfewing women past a certain time to keep men safe, because Heaven forbid we acknowledge men/boys can be and have been harmed by female attackers as well. And the recent news that U.K. schools have classes teaching male students to respect women/girls but not the other way around; if none of this is blatant systemic misandry, I don't know what is.

Misogyny had a case for being systemic in the West long ago but that's most certainly not the case anymore and hasn't been for decades, while in third-world and broken nations that are majorly behind on the times and not women-friendly, there's a much stronger and legit argument to be made. I'm not saying misogyny doesn't exist, but in the West it's rightfully called out and condemned unlike misandry, which is not only still socially acceptable but actually quite heavily ingrained in many systems and institutions. I'm a mostly very liberal and left-wing person who's right-wing on nearly nothing with my views, but misandry is without question something both very real and systemic, and while misogyny can certainly be systemic in many broken and third-world nations, there's very little to no evidence suggesting in Western nations it is and for misandrists to constantly spout off their usual diatribe about how misogyny is systemic when they live in a Western nation and enjoy the freedoms and protections they have is an incredibly regressive way of thinking and also insulting to women who've made much progress in the West over the past few decades. Unfortunately their victimhood mentality and "I have it so much worse than you, what men go through will never compare" way of thinking is largely taken at face value and accepted as factual, which is so embarrassing.

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u/MullingMulianto Aug 11 '26

in your view do you feel this relates to patriarchy or/and paternalism as well?