What she was describing wasn’t a direct reaction to bullying, it was a flip of the narrative of oppression:
“And frankly, a part of me is slightly surprised that after millennia of having to put up with it, women aren’t the ones killing their intimate partners, creating revenge porn, gang-raping and throwing acid in men’s faces practically every single day.”
She is advocating for some sick kind of karmic balance created by reversing the oppression. Unless of course we’re talking about women that are 1000 years old.
Misandry is the hatred of men, not misogyny. Choosing misandry as a response to misogyny is problematic for many reasons. It promotes the idea that men, generally, need to be deprived or punished. It sickening that male problems such as male mortality, suicide and homelessness are a source of delight and humor for misandists, such as yourself. Misandrists (like yourself) see it as karma that men are suddenly sinking fast in society, dropping out of the schools they once dominated and killing themselves at an alarming rate.
The problem is that these men that you hate so much are not the ones with power and influence. They are not the men that historically held women back and they do not deserve to be treated prejudicially based on the presumption of their privilege.
It’s this presumption of privilege that causes us to view anything a woman does as punching up. At the same time women are being infantilized to the point that even arguing with a woman is seen as punching down. On the other hand, women who “punch up” are seen as being subversive and funny.
For example, in 2011, Catherine Kieu chopped off her husbands penis as as revenge for him filing for divorce. Sharon Osborne and other hosts on “The Talk” made jokes about it as if male mutilation was a humorous topic. They apologized the next show, but they couldn’t even do that with a straight face. There was no outrage, no cancelling, no consequences for their behavior.
You say your misandry is harmless. I think that view is the confirmation of your hatred of men: you deny that men are capable of suffering or injury. If something horrible does happen to us, your first impulse is that we had it coming. It’s dehumanizing.
That’s why I object to this article. It send a message to women like you: your hatred of men is ok, it’s justified. I’m here to tell you, it’s not ok. It’s not justified. It is sick.
