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To think all MNers hate men?

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Corriganscans · 21/06/2025 12:49

I’m a lesbian so I don’t date men and I like women both to have relationships with and as a species! I’m a feminist and share some of the views on men that seem to be very prevalent on MN. I don’t hate men though. I actually feel a bit sorry for boys and young men today growing up in a world that is very critical of them (a view which I’ll probably get flamed for which’ll further prove my point!) I struggle to understand some of the clear contempt and, often what appears to be hatred of men from straight women on here. How do you date/fancy/fall in love with them if you have such negative views of them? Or is it just that every single woman with these views just happens to have one of the good ones? I doubt it. Isn’t it not that different to a misogynistic straight man who hates women but is happy to date them (thereby pretty much objectifying them for their own needs)??

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RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 19:54

thestudio · 21/06/2025 19:17

My point is, you’re not actually seeing what IS, but what you want to be true.

Men exploit women.

those women who have free time have raced through ‘their’ jobs to free up space. The men just … have free time, for cycling, gym, whatever. A cock is a magic wand.

if that was true, (and it isn't) it would only mean that men are more organised or more efficient.

Why would they magically have more time?

HRTQueen · 21/06/2025 19:46

I think MN is a place where many find they can be honest about how they feel

and there are too many men who are not particularly good people

and that is what is being expressed on here

phoenixrosehere · 21/06/2025 19:39

YABU and you know you are for using the word ‘ALL’.

I don’t love or hate anyone. Ime, there are more men that have been polite to me than have been mean to me. Have some been imbeciles and have I felt unsafe, absolutely, doesn’t mean I hate them or that I can’t point out bad, hypocritical, and/or ignorant behaviour and the same goes for women.

jannier · 21/06/2025 19:32

thestudio · 21/06/2025 19:17

My point is, you’re not actually seeing what IS, but what you want to be true.

Men exploit women.

those women who have free time have raced through ‘their’ jobs to free up space. The men just … have free time, for cycling, gym, whatever. A cock is a magic wand.

So say no and take your free time from day one don't change it when you have a baby hand baby to him express and take a break.

jannier · 21/06/2025 19:23

thestudio · 21/06/2025 16:45

If you're not already quite a hawkish feminist, lots of male behaviours/attitudes are hidden - or at least, capable of being looked past - until you have small children, at which point the male tendency to treat women like packhorses that you can fuck becomes apparent.

Most of the women here saying 'hold on, mine is great!' are looking at those men through patriarchy-tinted spectacles.

The percentage of men who truly, seriously, intentionally do 50% of what is required to bring a child to psychological and physiological maturity in a home which is clean and calm is in the low single figures.

The rest - regardless of whether they are liberal or laddish - are exploitative (and let's remember, exploitation is fundamentally abusive) cunts to varying degrees.

But why then do you believe its in the male gene or is it upbringing? Do we step back and allow it subconsciously? I do think the current breast feeding attitude is now pushing men away from doing childcare and many women are pushing men away ....
Men pushed out because it's easier to feed if you co sleep so he's in another room seems common. Women taking a years maternity leave (not saying I don't agree with it) leaves a year when many are not expecting men to step up at home. Rather than it be you've both had a hard day let's pull together now I'm home it seems many have turned into stepford wives feeling they have to do it all.
You absolutely have the right to expect equal work life balance at home.
We should be promoting it in our children but how many our encouraging them to do domestic duties like cooking from early teens? On mn we have mums fretting about packing their adults clothes and checking they have everything for holidays. Yet they are supposed to be capable adults with kids in a few years later.

thestudio · 21/06/2025 19:17

RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 18:20

it's funny how it's always women who are actually abusive.
No man is ever calling me "an idiot" or at idiot-level of denial when I disagree with him 😂

don’t get bored or offended when the woman stops massaging their ego
someone is projecting big time.

Men don’t have to be rapists or domestic abusers to abuse women I don't know anyone who is being abused, and couples going away for the weekend seem to be sharing their free time fairly equally.

I do pity you for having such a sad view of the world. That's not my experience

My point is, you’re not actually seeing what IS, but what you want to be true.

Men exploit women.

those women who have free time have raced through ‘their’ jobs to free up space. The men just … have free time, for cycling, gym, whatever. A cock is a magic wand.

jannier · 21/06/2025 19:09

thestudio · 21/06/2025 18:13

If you look at the data, and the anecdotal evidence on MN for eg, and the evidence of your own eyes about how many men you know who actually split the life load 50/50 and don’t get bored or offended when the woman stops massaging their ego because she has small humans who need that attention more, and you still think it’s ‘a few individuals’ - you are at idiot-levels of denial.

Men don’t have to be rapists or domestic abusers to abuse women. It’s in what they don’t do as much as what they do.

We’re all trained to not see it.

So why do so many women allow themselves to carry an unfair domestic share? Do we not empower our daughter's to say no I'm not doing it all? Does the current pressure to breast feed for asap keep us chained to the home and domestic duties because we feel the men are out at work and we don't value childcare duties enough? On here loads of mums say but I don't mind I'm home all day while he's working but when I go back he will need to step up.

jannier · 21/06/2025 19:04

Bridport · 21/06/2025 15:31

Men get paid on average 14% more than women.
87% of billionaires are men.
In the UK men hold 30% more wealth than women.
Women hold less than one-third of the top jobs across various sectors, including politics, law, and business

This is why there needs to be focus on improving chances for women.

Where is the balance unfair?

If men are fighting, what are they fighting for?
Why should we consider mens' needs when they clearly already hold the winning cards from birth?

Wow....do you have a son,?

WhereHasMyPlanetGone · 21/06/2025 18:31

I only hate the arseholes. Sadly there are quite a lot of them.

Polewaxed · 21/06/2025 18:29

It’s a massive sweeping generalisation to say everyone on MN hates men. A lot of the criticism of men on MN is perfectly valid. What I would say is that the same biting critical analysis is rarely applied in the same way to women, who can quite easily be truly awful.

RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 18:20

thestudio · 21/06/2025 18:13

If you look at the data, and the anecdotal evidence on MN for eg, and the evidence of your own eyes about how many men you know who actually split the life load 50/50 and don’t get bored or offended when the woman stops massaging their ego because she has small humans who need that attention more, and you still think it’s ‘a few individuals’ - you are at idiot-levels of denial.

Men don’t have to be rapists or domestic abusers to abuse women. It’s in what they don’t do as much as what they do.

We’re all trained to not see it.

it's funny how it's always women who are actually abusive.
No man is ever calling me "an idiot" or at idiot-level of denial when I disagree with him 😂

don’t get bored or offended when the woman stops massaging their ego
someone is projecting big time.

Men don’t have to be rapists or domestic abusers to abuse women I don't know anyone who is being abused, and couples going away for the weekend seem to be sharing their free time fairly equally.

I do pity you for having such a sad view of the world. That's not my experience

thestudio · 21/06/2025 18:13

RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 17:39

In real life, most women don't look at men like they're part of a different species and a danger to women, because MEN.

How many times will someone pip up on here "women don't realise how much men hate them"? Sorry but what?

It's not the usual nonsense "not all men", it's that a few individuals don't define a group. Some people love to see the men as "the enemy" and fancy themselves living in a dystopian Handmaid'Tale nightmare, in real life, it doesn't happen.

Some countries are backwards, but talking about the countries most posters come from? Nonsense.

If you look at the data, and the anecdotal evidence on MN for eg, and the evidence of your own eyes about how many men you know who actually split the life load 50/50 and don’t get bored or offended when the woman stops massaging their ego because she has small humans who need that attention more, and you still think it’s ‘a few individuals’ - you are at idiot-levels of denial.

Men don’t have to be rapists or domestic abusers to abuse women. It’s in what they don’t do as much as what they do.

We’re all trained to not see it.

Onleemoi · 21/06/2025 18:12

It’s batshit mostly as the op, a mner, is saying she doesn’t hate men whilst simultaneously asking if all mners hate men.

RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 18:04

there is an incredible amount of man-haters on MN that's true

I don't meet such anger and bitterness in real life - thank god

JustSawJohnny · 21/06/2025 17:56

Don't be ridiculous, OP.

Talk about a sweeping generalisation 🙄

Most of us are in a relationship with one and many of us birthed sons.

Just a batshit statement to make.

CarpetKnees · 21/06/2025 17:55

As with all ridiculous generalisation on here, YABU to say 'ALL'.

Of course we don't.

I acknowledge there are a fair few people on here who come across like that, but to conclude 'all MNers hate men' from those people is just ridiculous.

They do get very angry when you point out 'not all men' on any of their threads though Grin

DiscoBob · 21/06/2025 17:53

I think I'd dislike them less if I was a lesbian.

Just thinking of how cringe men are when they want sex. And they want women. The way the sometimes act to try and attract us. It's like 'Bro, are you MAD?!'
I feel like they need us more than we need them. And some of them can't really handle it.

But I love some of them and it's not their fault they were born male. I'd fucking hate to be a bloke.

Iloveyoubut · 21/06/2025 17:49

BMW6 · 21/06/2025 12:55

I've noticed a bias - if a man hits a woman he's scum, if a woman hits a man he must have provoked her.........

But I wouldn't say that we all HATE all men, no. Just the abusive wanker ones.

I'm not keen on women, apart from my sisters.

That’s truly something I’ve not seen on Mumsnet. I find posters are just as hard and often harsher on women who have been abusive or cheated or whatever, I genuinely don’t have that experience on here of there being bias, quite the opposite in fact.

ChessorBuckaroo · 21/06/2025 17:47

I'm picturing man haters like this unhappy woman. Joe, being perfectly polite until she pulled a Karen by demanding he look in her in the eye, soon put her back in her box.

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RichHolidayPoorHoliday · 21/06/2025 17:39

thestudio · 21/06/2025 17:08

In real life, lots of people are playing a part and know the risks of not doing so. Or they've convinced themselves not to look too closely at male behaviour, because it will bring trouble to their door.

In real life, most women don't look at men like they're part of a different species and a danger to women, because MEN.

How many times will someone pip up on here "women don't realise how much men hate them"? Sorry but what?

It's not the usual nonsense "not all men", it's that a few individuals don't define a group. Some people love to see the men as "the enemy" and fancy themselves living in a dystopian Handmaid'Tale nightmare, in real life, it doesn't happen.

Some countries are backwards, but talking about the countries most posters come from? Nonsense.

Myrobalanna · 21/06/2025 17:31

thestudio · 21/06/2025 17:08

In real life, lots of people are playing a part and know the risks of not doing so. Or they've convinced themselves not to look too closely at male behaviour, because it will bring trouble to their door.

This is spot on.

Myrobalanna · 21/06/2025 17:29

I don't hate men. But, I will say, I have become so despondent and disappointed with them. It is really appalling to see - now that we have social media - how their entitlement plays out, how little they try to understand the lives of the women they live next to every day. How much harm they do to women and nobody gives a shit. I feel sorry for everyone who is harmed by patriarchy (that's most of us, men included) but I am utterly fed up with men's general lack of self-education on the subject.

I have good men in my life but their lack of imagination about how things are for women is kind of bleak. I also have not good men in my life, in that I was brought up with a lot of covert misogyny, and I only have ongoing contempt for them tbh.

Onleemoi · 21/06/2025 17:24

Must be easy to be funny when you’re unburdened by the everyday drudge of relentless housework, life admin and child rearing. Not to mention free from worrying about being bothered whilst going about your day to day activities and being paid as much as the next man for doing the same job (to name but a few).
I don’t hate men by any stretch but women, on the whole, are better.

Dweetfidilove · 21/06/2025 17:23

I love men, but I don't believe in keeping one at all cost.

I can also acknowledge that men do very bad things to everyone.

ginasevern · 21/06/2025 17:21

@Corriganscans "Of course I don’t like all women but as a group they are not seen as negatively as men (for good reason imo)"

So you've basically answered your own question. You're saying that men are seen in a more negative light than women, for good reason in your opinion. That kind of defeats the whole object of your post doesn't it?

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