What should I say to my 19 year old daughter who has already decided that she hates men?

[JMSA]

I don’t know, I guess it just saddens me that she holds this negative view of the world already. I received this text from her tonight:

I feel so enraged by the Epstein files. It is like documented proof men are evil. This is what men will do when they have power and think they will get away with it because that’s their nature. The poor woman and kids, it’s sick.

I’m fed up of saying ‘it’s not all men’.
She really hasn’t known many nice teenage boys. I daresay social media has heavily coloured her view too. I don’t want to dismiss her feelings but don’t want to encourage the notion that all men are evil!

Read the room, Geoff.

The stats are so clear on the different offending rate even attempting to draw any equivalence immediately marks you out as either a fool or a misogynist. The Moors murders were 60 years ago. How many similar crimes have been carried out by men since? Sarah Payne / Sarah Everard / Chillenden / Levi bell field spring to mind. And the rest.

Maybe show her examples of some good men who have made the world a better place.

The secret millionaire show is an example of rich people not all being massive assholes.

I bet they are. Women do not commit rape. Go away. Stop derailing the thread.

@Geoff1960
This is a thread about a 19 year old woman who has already seen enough examples of male bad behaviour to conclude she hates men. I think we can all agree that's pretty troubling.
Most people on here see the resolution to this as to look at ways to improve male behaviour so women have no reason to think this way.
You, and others seem to see the resolution to be persuading her that there isn't a problem at all. Because there are some nice men and some nasty women.
Of course there are nice men and nasty women. But this thread isn't about them. It's about the bad men who are hurting women, children and each other in big and small ways. This isn't something feminists are just claiming happens because they want to be mean to men. The problem of MVAWG is recognised by government as a national problem. As is the problem of men hurting each other in alarming numbers.
Rather than try to distract us from talking about this problem, do you, as a man, have any thoughts on the problem itself? How it could be addressed?

My ex was sexually abused by his mother, causing psychological issues throughout his life. It’s extremely rare for it to be mothers rather than fathers committing sexual abuse. Pointing out the relative rarity does not mean anyone believes women never commit violent or sexual crimes or males are never victims. If someone told me they had been sexually abused as a child, I would still presume it was at the hands of a male and statistically I’d be correct close to 100% of the time.

This post can't be genuine can it?