THE HATRED OR FEAR OF WOMEN

Well, my intention at the outset, despite a good deal of foolishness since then, was to attempt to get plausible explanations for the hateful response to women i had seen in another thread. I choose to frame it as the hatred or fear of women just to attempt to make the discussion managable. (Managable in the sense of people having a reasonable basis for discussion--my intent is not to attempt to manage what people will say.)

Tangential, but possibly related thought: What common things may exist between a fear/hatred of women and homosexuals?

When I think about it like this, I wonder if it's not even about women as much as anything that potentially challenges the status quo on the social power structure (mostly uncontested until the last century), and women just happen to be one group gaining and so they experience said fear/hatred.

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Thoughts?

In his post #4644906, Engineer addressed the issue of threats to white male dominance.

Men and women as a whole do not have a 100 percents overlap in how they think or react and knowing that is not sexism in any way or in any manner.

Second, there is good reasons to think that this is at least as biological driven as culturely driven.

that does not match up with my experience, as every man that I have met ( and there have not been many) who either feared or hated women has had a long tale to tell of how he has been mistreated by particular women.... it has been his own suffering at the hands of women that has caused his hostility to women, not general changes in the power structure of society.

I'm not the one rendered frantic.

I suspect that in the case of our mutual friend it was wasted.