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Tom Rinaldo

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18. Sincere question, open to all to respond to if you want...
Sun May 13, 2018, 11:03 AM
May 2018

Are white men generally more "misogynist" then men of other races? I realize that there are cultural as well as racial variables that impact exactly how misogynist groups of men may be, so that is a factor also. Still to the extent that comparing apples to apples applies, are white men who were born and raised in American more misogynistic than black or Asian men also born and raised in America?

I think it's clear that white men on the whole have a greater sense of "entitlement" then most men of other races in America, which has dangerous economic as well as racial ramifications. And I think it fairly obvious that a relatively high proportion of the "Super Rich" men in America (who tend to be white) think most people are not as worthy of having their personal needs, sexual or otherwise, met as they themselves are. But there is a perverse dynamic in racism whereby some poor whites take comfort from believing that they are superior to blacks, even though they realize that they are lodged near the bottom of society's pecking order. Some oppressed people do try to boost their self esteem either by looking down on others, or by attempting to identify with those who hold more power than they do. So it is entirely possible for males of races other than white to be misogynistic toward women.

Above it was posited: " the young white males just as well Get Over the delusion that women are desperate for him; and accept the fact that women can find a man in the multicultural world...

... they no longer have to accept being degraded, and put upon, used and treated like a sex toy, and discarded the minute she shows signs of natural aging, when women now are more certain in knowing they can find men of many different ethnic and cultural backgrounds from many difference races, who will treat them as a human being and respect their individualism and equality as a person and not see them as some object and men who won't assume her as being his possession."

I agree that women increasingly know that they can seek intimacy and respect from partners of many races, white women for example are not limited to white male partners, they can look for real love wherever they find it. Power imbalances in general tend to feed abusive relationships. Most of the most powerful people in Europe and America are white men and indeed those are they types who, for example, are prone to trade in "trophy wives" for the latest youngest model. But leaving aside ruling class males for a second, are typical working and middle class white men more likely to degrade women, use them as sex toys etc. than men of other races?

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