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In reply to the discussion: If Misandry DOES exist, it might look like this: [View all]Bonobo
(29,257 posts)It doesn't occupy much of my time, either.
However, duplicity and double standards irritate me.
So I call them out.
If a HOF member posts something which is really undisguised verbal violence against men, I think it should be called out. The fact that the members there DO NOT RECOGNIZE THAT as violence and threat and abusive language is an indication of how far their thinking is hypocritical.
OTOH, a man trying to "get in the pants of a woman" is not violence, nor is it misogyny. It is called horniness and men pursuing women for sex has been a "thing" forever and it will continue to be a "thing" until when and if women begin actually pursuing men aggressively.
In addition, I hate the word "creepy" because what does it really mean? It is a lazy, passive aggressive attack. Is it pathetic? I don't know. I think it is sad that people are lonely and have needs. But a sexual want is no more pathetic than any other kind.
Is wanting to have sex a representation that you only think of a woman as an object? Well, Jesus, people IN GENERAL view each other so much of the time as commodities that I don't think it should be surprising. Does a hitchhiker on the road deserve to be attacked because they only think of a driver as a "thing"? Does a job seeker deserve to be attacked because during the interview, they are only thinking of how to get the job and not as the interviewer as a person? Does the interviewed deserve scorn because they view the interviewee as a thing? What about a dishwasher, busboy, cleaning lady? What about viewing a mother as a cleaner, a father as a breadwinner? A brother as a ride home? Let's be honest and stop special casing sexual attraction wrt "objectifying". Okay?