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i dont get people who hate straight men.. like what did they do to u ngl if they did nothing to you just dont hate them there still like us. and pls dont say im dckriding them its just so many people hate them for no reason if u hate for a reason we can talk yk
why do people hate straight men
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manofSteele
I remember one time someone complained that she had to be with two straight white men for the day. Everyone was looking at her like "why are you being so dramatic?". The best part: One of them wasn't even straight.
Lydia ☆ Valeria's #1 fan
I never see genuine responses on these kinds of posts, it's almost always just people defending men, but I think this question is something that needs to be answered. Sorry if this is too long I love talking about this stuff lol
A lot of people don't seem to understand the difference between hate and fear, as well as hate and protecting yourself. As a lesbian radfem I've been called a man hater more times than I can count because apparently not feeling safe around men is the same as hating men... and somehow wanting (trans inclusive) women only spaces is also oppressing men, so a lot of women say that they hate men because they think that having boundaries means they hate men, or because they're sick of having to explain why they don't hate men so they think they might as well just go with it.
I do sympathise with people who genuinely hate men though, they've usually been through a lot of shit and most, if not all, of the men in their lives have either brushed it off or been part of the trauma. They don't hate men as individuals, they hate men as a whole, because men as a whole benefit from the patriarchy.
I also think that people usually don't understand the difference between hating your oppressor and hating a random group of people for no reason. If you look at forums where men are talking about how much they hate women, it's genuinely scary. When you look at forums where women hate men, it's generally just women who want to be left alone. A lot of people claim that hating men is just as bad as hating women because they have this weird obsession with everything being equal. When they oversimplify the problem like this, it glosses over so many issues and actually helps fuel the hatred men have for women.
In reality, women are hated by men more than men will ever be hated by women, but nobody ever asks the question "why do men hate women so much?" because it's either dismissed as individual men acting out (rather than a problem with men as a whole), or it's the fault of women
I think reducing hating men to "being childish" is ignoring so much history and context. It's not childish to hate/fear your oppressor when almost every woman either has experienced awful shit because of men or knows someone who has.
I would definitely recommend looking into radical feminism if you're interested in this topic, there's so much stuff that the average person isn't really aware of until you start looking into it deeper.