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2 min readFeb 8, 2024

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Both are true. That's my belief. Basically, it gets down to how you perceive men and how you define men in a wod use sort of way.

Pretty much all feminists love the men in their lives. They love their fathers, their husbands, their sons and other male family members. There's a lot of men they look up to or have a lot of respect for or, dare I say, care about that they work with, share a faith tradition with, are neighbors to in some way, etc.

So feminists love men.

If you're talking about men as a collective, the entirety of all men, then the word love is too strong, it denotes something like a collective awe or obsession, or special phallic reverence or something.

In that regard, no. Feminists don't "love" "men". But it doesn't follow that feminists hate men. Their feelings are more or less neutral. In this context, that's a good silid place to be for both parties. Being on the receiving end, as a woman, of that awe or unearned reverence I can tell you, it's fucking weird. We can't understand why men would think they want that.

If you define the word men as the current fashionable social scripts and/or what's being promoted on social media under this current wave of gender essentialism nonsense pushes by Influencers rather than individual human beings in a male body form of men, then absolutely not. Feminists do not "love men". They're pretty disgusted by them, actually.

Doesn't generally track to misandry though, because remember, the diagust is teigfered by gender essentialism theory and there's a proscription for women too. The disgust leveled at those women is equally visceral. Parity at last. Lol.

Context is king/queen.

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