Good or bad, we are all the product of our life experiences, and as much as this is true for the men we don’t like; it is no less true for women. Look behind the person and their anger, to see what has shaped them – Men who are violent, are often victims of violence. Men who were abused as children, will more likely become an abuser themselves. Men who were not shown appropriate boundaries growing up, will more likely fail to understand them in adulthood. This is the basis for clinical psychology. There are no abnormal behaviours, only a normal response to an abnormal set of experiences. So what are the abnormal life experiences that have shaped women who hate men? Especially, women so brazen to admit this, or even brag about it, on social media? Of course, authentic and understandable experiences of pain and trauma do not lie behind each of these women… So how do we separate the fragile whine bags, caught up in an anti-male maelstrom, from women who have genuine grievances, and traumatic scars at the hands of men? How much can we - or should we - work to understand why so much hostility toward ‘men’ exists? Is there work to be done to disentangle, and understand, the painful experiences that too often lead women down the road to hating men? So to all of you; how do you feel about women who say “I h*te men”; do you respond with anger, understanding, sympathy, intrigue, disinterest, or something else? What do you think?

2024-08-21