Every man I’ve seen call feminism a “man-hating movement” always ends up being one of the most vile, objectifying, discriminatory, and, well, hateable pieces of shit imaginable. If they think feminism is “man-hating,” then perhaps instead of complaining about “misandry,” they should be less hateable.

The sheer number of men who seemingly lack the baseline of just the mere ability to view women as people is disgusting. “Misandry” is a response to this disgusting behavior, obviously.

Sometimes, you do get TERFs and shitstain feminists who don’t understand theory and will be bioessentialist as a way to turn “man-hating” into transphobia, but these people misunderstand the dialectic just as much as people who complain about misandry do.

Patriarchy is the problem in all cases, essentialism is a tool of its abuses, and trying to use essentialism as a counter to it, like TERFs do, is just adding fuel to the fire, as the problem is rooted in the system and not essentialism.

It reminds me of how I cringe when I see POC promote racial essentialism as a way to assert that white people are inherently inferior. As much as I love complaining about cracKKKers systemically, using essentialism to fight the power structures that use essentialism to oppress in the first place will only generate more oppression.

Essentialism delenda est!