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1 min readAug 19, 2021

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Fine points, all. Though I don't know that it qualifies as misandry.

Your opinion, most of which I share btw, lacks the systemic nature of misogyny. There's no broad power structure behind it. Also, what you're describing is an act of intentional apathy as a reaction to misogyny. That's a little different than an act of active hate.

The fact that most men do not realize they hate women does not negate the actions of hate they participate in, actively.

I've been thinking about this a lot too, for a while now. I don't think it's that I'm uncomfortable with the term or the label.

It's that I just don't think anything about them anymore. It's complete and other apathy. I wouldn't care less if they all disappeared tomorrow. I probably wouldn't even notice. I don't feel hate toward them; I don't feel anything. Total ambivalence. I don't want anything from them but to be left alone.

What's been surprising to me is how wide spread this feeling is amongst women in the aftermath of #MeToo, the Trump years, attacks on Roe vs Wade, etc. Let's just say the response or lack thereof over these things has been VERY illuminating. It's like a veil had been lifted and all hope for a brighter future jointly has died. And were like, "so be it. You go your way, I'll go mine".

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