Male Bashing

I. Rampant in advertising

 100% of the jerks were male

 The one who was dumped was the male

 Ignorant ones were male

 Incompetent ones were male

 Those who smelled bad were male

 Those who were put down without retribution were male

 Objects of rejection were male

 Objects of violence were male

II. On TV sitcoms, mothers are never to be the butt of jokes or made to look foolish

III. In literature, editors push for anti-male titles to boost book sales. Closest female flaw is that women tend to ‘love too much’

IV. in products i.e. post it notes, bumper stickers

1. the more I learn about men, the more I like my dog

2. There are only two things wrong with men…everything they say and everything they do.

V. Women might take offense at sexual innuendos but the author argues that there is a difference between something that is interpreted as insulting and something that is intended to be insulting.

VI. Common assumptions

 that men are always wrong

 it is too easy for men to abandon families

VII. Hayward argues that we encourage women not to improve themselves. Self-help books only help women adjust/adapt to an inferior pool of men

Women lose genuine self-improvement.

VIII. Female chauvinism- articles telling women are communicative, more empathetic, more prepared to be intimate and committed, more liberated, etc.

IX. Shortage of eligible men

X. Sexism teaches us that men have been dominant for thousands of years, what’s a generation or two of abuse (from women)?

XI. Dire consequences of mental health for men

 struggling with maturation

 men feeling blamed/women feeling oppressed

X. Argument: There’s a balanced system.

 Both sexes enjoy privileges and power

 Both sexes had positive and negative stereotypes

Disruption of this balance equates to danger

 Men are forced to compete with each other while women are allowed to empathize with each other

 Men’s movement’s growing anger with women and vice versa