Men are not sharks. They are not ticks with Lyme disease. They are not snakes, rabid dogs, alligators, bears, bullets, insects, or sweets laced with cyanide. And no… They are not ‘tiny balls of human sh*t’ either. I understand there are many men out there who have caused immeasurable harm to women. Far too many men. But whilst you are perfectly within your right to hate those individual men, nothing entitles you to class hatred against “men” as a group. As a society, most of us have learnt this lesson when it comes to other groups; and we are horrified by the danger such dehumanizing language can lead to. And so, the same must surely apply to men too. Throughout history (an even right now) these thought experiments have beleaguered human progress; and whether they are belched from the belly of racist MAGA political figures, printed by anti-semites, or indeed, tweeted out by young, so-called “progressive” feminists, it makes little difference to me. Such views only lead us down and further apart. Such views needlessly turn up the heat, in a space where it is far too hot already. Such views make enemies from allies. And they are not welcome. There is nothing useful or enlightening about them, and they do nothing to further ‘gender equality’; so stop pretending otherwise. Because men are human beings, not inanimate objects, and they are deserving of the same dignity as anyone else would expect. What do you think?

2026-02-20