Elisa Mariño
3 min readJul 5, 2022

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Plenty of straw-man to complain that men are no longer just loved just for being men. First, men are not hated, neither loved. They are treated as individuals, so they are loved or hated according their actions. If a man treat others badly (as many have learned it is the "manly thing to do"), he no longer has simpathy for his actions like he used to be, some people held him accountable. And that is what you consider hate.

But be specific, what exactly is what you consider hate? What actions? Not dating someone? Well, some women can't find dates, is that hate towards women? No? Then it is not hate towards men. Some of their actions are critiziced? Well, that happens to women all the time.

The fact that you complain about men being hated when, in fact, the only thing that is happening to them is that "boys will be boys" is no longer a valid excuse for some people is just another example of that privilege. They aren't entitled to love. Not being loved is not hate, is indiference. And if they hurt someone, the normal reaction is that the person you just hurt (and the people who care for that person) hate them. So yes, the men who have been taught that to be a men means do things that sistematically hurt others might have a harder time being loved. The solution is not to complain about "men being hated" is to stop hurting people and if you have already hurt others, try to make ammends.

Feminist have just decided that it is not worth for "women to set themselves on fire to keep men warm". But that is not hate, is just taking distance to protect yourself from harm. Hate would be to ask for retaliation laws to hurt men. But while men and traditional women who support them legalize forcing a 10 year old girl who has been raped to a pregnancy that might kill her (clear hate), those feminist that you claim hate men aren't asking or ever ask for a tallion-law that, I don't know, physically castrate rapist. They just ask for body integrity and stop rape.

What doesn't work is for those men to ask sympathy from women they have previously told that "you need to grow a thick skin" whenever they told about the things that hurt them and then go and complain about things that are just the shame but that "suddently" when they happen to them are "unfair" and "not the shame" because you see, for them "it is different". No wonder they doesn't find sympathy.

And yeah, I've been there, listening to one of those who was perfectly OK telling women that if they weren't given a promotion in favor of a men it was because they weren't good enough (even while the women were given the sensitive projects and work associated with the position but not the pay), and that being sexually harashed wasn't that bad and, in fact, it was "flattering" that latter complained about another promotion going to a boss' nephew. And he couldn't comprehend why the women he had dismissed before didn't sympathize with him. He expected compassion, you know.

Now look at the articles that you consider hate. Do that articles speak about rape, women being murdered, loss of rights or men doing shitty things? What would be your proposed solution, that women remain silent about those shitty experiences and be compassionate towards the men who have done those things to them so their reputations remain intact (and they keep being loved) but women remain enduring those things? Does that sound compassionate towards women to you?

Because feminist already discuss among themselves and denounce fake feminist. For example: your critizism of "girl bosses" should be applied to "boy bosses" in order to be fair. So if it is wrong to be a girl boss because explotation and colonization, then it is wrong for a man to be a boss, right? But I'm guessing that maybe you believe that boy-bosses are able to improve those industries while girl bosses would be unable to make changes. Or maybe you believe that changes are impossible and, therefore, boybosses should remain the norm so women won't get their morals troubled (you know, as they used to say about politics to deny the vote...).

I guess that for some people, being denied special treatment would feel like hate. But for others, it is an opportunity to grow. The second ones have much better chances to end being loved, just saying.

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Elisa Mariño
Elisa Mariño

Written by Elisa Mariño

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