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Misandry (IPA [mɪ.ˈsæn.dri]) is the hatred of males as a sex, as opposed to misogyny, the hatred of women; or misanthropy, hatred of the human species. Misandry comes from misos (Greek μῖσος, "hatred") + andr-ia (Greek anér-andros, "man"). Those holding misandric beliefs can be of either sex.
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Classics professor Froma Zeitlin of Princeton University discussed misandry in her article titled "Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy." She writes:
The most significant point of contact, however, between Eteocles and the suppliant Danaids is, in fact, their extreme positions with regard to the opposite sex: the misogyny of Eteocles’ outburst against all women of whatever variety (Se. 181-202) has its counterpart in the seeming misandry of the Danaids, who although opposed to their Egyptian cousins in particular (marriage with them is incestuous, they are violent men) often extend their objections to include the race of males as a whole and view their cause as a passionate contest between the sexes(cf. Su. 29, 393, 487, 818, 951).Zeitlin, Froma I.. "Patterns of Gender in Aeschylean Drama: Seven against Thebes and the Danaid Trilogy" (PDF). Retrieved on 2007-12-21. Princeton University, paper given at the Department of Classics, University of California, Berkeley
In his book, Gender and Judaism: The transformation of tradition, Harry Brod, a Professor of Philosophy and Humanities in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Northern Iowa, writes:
In the introduction to The Great Comic Book Heroes, Jules Feiffer writes that this is Superman\'s joke on the rest of us. Clark is Superman\'s vision of what other men are really like. We are scared, incompetent, and powerless, particularly around women. Though Feiffer took the joke good-naturedly, his misandry embodied the Clark and his misogyny in his wish that Lois be enamored of Clark (much like Oberon takes out hostility toward Titania by having her fall in love with an ass in Shakespeare\'s Midsummer-Night\'s Dream).Gender and Judaism: The transformation of tradition, Harry Brod
Valerie Solanas, the radical feminist who shot Andy Warhol in 1968,Valerie Jean Solanas (1936-88). Guardian Unlimited. Guardian News and Media (2005-03-08). Retrieved on 2008-01-28. provides a famous example of misandry in her self-published SCUM Manifesto.
Solanas’s SCUM Manifesto, which she wrote in 1967, was one of the earliest, wittiest, and most eccentric expressions of second-wave feminism. Solanas’s unabashed misandry—especially her belief in men’s biological inferiority—her endorsement of relationships between ‘independent women,’ and her dismissal of sex as ‘the refuge of the mindless’ contravened the sort of radical feminism which prevailed in most women’s groups across the country.
—Alice Echols, University of Southern California, Department of Gender Studies
As for the issue of whether or not to continue to reproduce males, it doesn\'t follow that because the male, like disease, has always existed among us that he should continue to exist. When genetic control is possible -- and soon it will be -- it goes without saying that we should produce only whole, complete beings, not physical defects of deficiencies, including emotional deficiencies, such as maleness. Just as the deliberate production of blind people would be highly immoral, so would be the deliberate production of emotional cripples.
—Valeris Solanas, SCUM ManifestoSolanas, Valerie (1967). The S.C.U.M. Manifesto. Gifts of Speech: Women\'s Speeches from Around the World. Retrieved on 2007-12-28.
Man-hating is an emotional problem inasmuch as it creates pain and hostility between women and men. But it is not an individual neurosis à la \'Women Who Hate Men and the Men Who...\' Man-hating is a collective, cultural problem — or to refrain from diagnosing it at all, a cultural phenomenon — and men, as the object of man-hating, are part of it too.
—Judith Levine, My Enemy, My LoveLevine, Judith (1992). My Enemy, My Love. Doubleday. ISBN 0385410794.
In My Enemy, My Love (1992), Levine classifies these stereotypes of men as targets of women\'s misandry within intimate relationships:
Christina Hoff Sommers, a conservative commentator, argues that feminism has a \'corrosive paradox\' and that no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time denigrating the women who respect those men."Hoff Sommers, Christina (1994). Who Stole Feminism. Simon and Schuster, p. 256. ISBN 978-0684801568.
Wendy McElroy, a Fox News commentator,The Independent Institute argues that some feminists "have redefined the view of the movement of the opposite sex" as "a hot anger toward men seems to have turned into a cold hatred."(McElroy 2001, p. 5) She argues that men as a class are considered irreformable, all men are considered rapists, and marriage, rape and prostitution are seen as the same. She says "a new ideology has come to the forefront... radical or gender, feminism", one that has "joined hands with [the] political correctness movement that condemns the panorama of western civilization as sexist and racist: the product of \'dead white males.\'"(McElroy 2001, p. 4-6) Conservative pundit Charlotte Hays argues "that the anti-male philosophy of radical feminism has filtered into the culture at large — is incontestable; indeed, this attitude has become so pervasive that we hardly notice it any longer."Hays, Charlotte. \'The Worse Half\'. National Review 11 March, 2002.
In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.
—Warren Farrell, Women Can\'t Hear What Men Don\'t Say
Religious Studies professors, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young make similar comparisons in their ambitious three-book series Beyond The Fall Of Man,(Nathanson & Young 2001, p. 4-6) "The same problem that long prevented mutual respect between Jews and Christians, the teaching of contempt, now prevents mutual respect between men and women." which treats misandry as a form of prejudice and discrimination that has become institutionalized in North American society, causing real harm to men. Nathanson and Young credit "ideological feminism" for imposing misandry on culture.(Nathanson & Young 2001, p. xiv) "[ideological feminism,] one form of feminism—one that has had a great deal of influence, whether directly or indirectly, on both popular culture and elite culture—is profoundly misandric." Their book Spreading Misandry (2001) analyzes "pop cultural artifacts and productions from the 1990s" from movies to greeting cards for what they consider contains pervasive messages of hatred toward men. Legalizing Misandry (2005) the second in the series, gives similar attention to laws in North America.
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