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I’ve started to realize that the indoctrination of hating men can be so subtle when growing up. when I was a kid, I always assumed that guys raped and hit their partners, never the other way around. men were the aggressive, loud ones who were always domineering and controlling (it didn’t help that I had a step dad just like that) so growing up that’s how I viewed men. I was just waiting to get abused by them, to be yelled at by them, taught to fear them and treat them like they are vile creatures who only know how to abuse women. but around high school age, my thinking started changing and that’s when I really started to oppose feminism and now I’m 22 years old trying to reverse the brainwashing that all men are evil and rapists and abusers, because it’s simply not true. evil is not gendered. and I hate that society just accepts that it’s okay to hate men just because they’re men? it’s not and it never will be.
I was pretty sheltered growing up, since I was pulled out of elementary school and homeschooled for quite a few years. My parents were good folks and taught me to judge people as individuals. It never occurred to me to judge a man’s character on anything other than his actions. The idea that men were intrinsically worse than me never crossed my mind. (My day-to-day life never gave me any inkling to think that way either. Guys were a diverse group of people, but rarely scummy. Certainly no more so than woman.)
When I went into a private high school, it was a huge culture shock. One of the first things I noticed was how horribly girls treated boys. I remember thinking, “What are you people doing? Boys are not some slab of meat for you to gnaw on and fight over! They’re people, PEOPLE, they have feelings too!” I’d seen dogs treated better than some of these boys were being treated.
My mantra became, “Men are people too!”
I started saying that in 1997 when I was 14. That’s almost 20 years ago! This form of man-hate, or at best apathy towards men’s dignity as fellow humans, has been going on for quite some time. I’m not surprised at the vileness being spewed now, because I saw it already taking root when I was a kid.
I used to actually get mad that a man COULDN’T hit back. I would see this a lot on sitcoms where women and girls are just tearing men and boys apart, and they never defend themselves. “Why doesn’t he just tell her to shut up? Why doesn’t he push her away?” I would just get SO frustrated! DX And I guess I absorbed it a bit when I got older, but deep down I just sensed something hypocritical. But it was never really talked about. It was always “Girl Power!” and “Girls Rule!”. No one ever talked about how boys felt, unless it was beneficial for the girls. Most of this was in TV shows though. I don’t really recall much in the real world— thankfully.
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