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Halsey shares misandristic article on Twitter
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Very interesting article / opinion about the "new fad" of misandry in popular culture as a "feminist tool."
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https://twitter.com/halsey/status/683537801447485440
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The Year in Male Tears
2014 was the year that misandry became chic. That January began with the reminder from Madeleine Holden, creator of Critique my Dick Pic, that "dick is abundant and low value," a Tweet that resonated with the power of a 140-character manifesto. The movie release of Gone Girl and Taylor Swift's video for "Blank Space" made misandry aspirational. Etsy samplers emblazoned with "men are scum" and Café Press mugs reading "male tears" proliferated. The year ended with feminazis opening their 2014 Misandmas presents with glee, finding copies of Bitch Planet and Bad Feminist.
On the whole, however, 2014's misandry was flavored with wry bemusement and detached irony. We women joked around a lot about liking men like we liked our coffee—ground up and in the freezer—but we didn't seem serious. We splashed around in kiddie pools filled with male tears, and we wore our "misandry" nameplate necklaces; we held hands and chanted "ban all men" at our coven meetings; later, we recited the Misandrist's Prayer while looking at pictures of cats.
But in 2015, misandry changed and chic got real. Misandry isn't as simple as hating men. Just as misogyny is less a dislike of women and more a network of practice built on the oppression of women, misandry is a seething rage against patriarchal power, not just a dislike of men. And maybe it was born in irony, but it has hardened with (fire emoji) (nails emoji) (dancing woman emoji).
As every new accuser told her Cosby story—that she had been slipped a drug; that he had spiked her drink; that she had woken in his bed, confused; that he had forced her to her knees; that she had been raped—women across America felt the airbag illusion of safety deflate. Our hearts hurt for the victims; our pain turned to rage. It's all fine fun to make #killallmen jokes on Twitter, but Cosby's betrayal of our trust eroded any irony with each new iteration.
Less prominent was the example of Charlie Sheen, who announced his HIV-positive status on the Today Show, blaming "the companionship of unsavory and insipid types." That interview showed NBC's Matt Lauer repeat Sheen's "unsavory and insipid" and Sheen lob it back; it wasn't enough that Sheen, a man with a robust history of allegations of domestic abuse, tell us that he's HIV positive; he had to blame women when he did it.
And then ****'s "boy next door," James Deen made three. Thanksgiving weekend, Deen's ex-girlfriend and sometime scene partner Stoya, performer, entrepreneur and essayist who has written for VICE, alleged that Deen raped her in a pair of tweets. Within a week, eight more women came forward to say that Deen had sexually abused them, too. Deen gave his side of the story to Aurora Snow; the interview reads like a long, sloppy soul kiss to a man whose love of rape jokes is well documented.
So what's a chick to do when she sees a man she'd looked up to, a man she'd thrilled to, and a man she's fapped to betray women? She looks around, and she fears every man, for every man feels implicated in the blank-faced denials of these famous men. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to misandry. And misandry leads to some pretty amazing social action, not to mention some great pop culture.
Misandry, 2015's rich, bitchy, delicious evidence suggests, is not a fad. It's in your music and on your television; it's at the movies and in your Twitter stream. It's shaping culture and it's influencing women. If your #MasculinitySoFragile that you've got a problem with that, let me refer you to Hillary Clinton's near-audible eye-rolling at the Benghazi hearing, to Ex Machina's sweetly homicidal Ava, or to New York City's 2015 manspreading misdemeanor. Misandry's here to stay, boys. Get used to it.
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http://www.vice.com/read/the-year-in...=vicetwitterus
TLDR: misandry is warranted because some men raped women
#menarescum #wearethenewamericana
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