Do you think this is misandry, or is it just light-hearted humour?

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traceyracer · 07/07/2019 23:38

There's a post on my facebook which makes me a little uncomfortable. It's something like "your husband comes home drunk and in bed you find he still has a condom on, what do you do?" And all the responses are comments like "stab him, cut his dick off, set him on fire" etc. Quite violent but suggesting acts of violence against a man who has cheated is funny?

Surely domestic violence is such a serious issue it shouldn't be joked about either way?

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LassOfFyvie · 08/07/2019 00:21

My first reaction is I'm glad I have so far to have missed out on having a Facebook account.

The question posed is so absurd I can't imagine even formulating a reply. I assume that the question was intended to provoke the sort of idiotic responses it got?

My second reaction would be to question why I was part of this Facebook group.

Re misandry - there was a recent thread where a poster posted men should have no rights in how children are brought up as their only contribution was to masturbate into the vagina of the women who subsequently bears the child and other extreme views. I think misandry would have described that attitude.

In the situation you are describing I think deeply unpleasant people who are probably a bit thick is sufficient.

OccasionalKite · 08/07/2019 00:15

You are fishing!

ALittleBitofVitriol · 08/07/2019 00:13

It's not misandry, it's not prejudice against men as a class.

It's quite a hyperbolic expression of understandable anger towards a specific situation.

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traceyracer · 08/07/2019 00:08

What about the example I gave?

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sakura184 · 08/07/2019 00:06

I don't know why but I always think misandry is such a silly word, a sort of made up word without any real substance

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