Men are so frustrated because, on one hand, they want women to look to them for protection, with admiration, but at the exact same time, they know they don't want to shoulder that responsibility and they hate themselves for it.

So they take it out *on women.*
How old were you when you realized Rivers Cuomo is a fucking creep?
For the most part, men have no idea how misogyny affects them. They assume misogyny is a decision they're choosing not to make and not seeing it as the broth they were boiled in from birth.
Every time a woman challenges a man *in any capacity,* she puts herself at risk. BC even while the dude she challenges may not kill her, he will feel legitimized to destroy her any way he can going forward because, in his mind, her disrespect has rendered her subhuman to him.
The ideal candidate for everything new and wonderful is still first imagined to be a man with man-shaped features, attributes, and characteristics.

It never matters how brilliant, creative, and funny you are as a woman if who everyone really wants for the part is a man.
In order to survive in a man-shaped world, women have had to become more like men.

Men have never had to become more like women.

They'd so often rather take an assault rifle and murder us all before trying.
Misogyny in heterosexuality is measured in all the pain women are expected to just "deal with" because that's just how it is.

Emotional immaturity.

God's gender preferences.

Whatever lie does the work.
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