Reply #232: I see some difference between saying "Many men are misogynists" [View All]

[Pamela Troy]

and saying "Many men are misogynists because they are afraid of women," but neither statements really qualify as "stereotypes." In my piece I offer some educated guesses about what prompts some men to, for instance, suddenly denounce women they are arguing with as fat or ugly, or what prompts some men to offer unsolicited and inappropriate compliments about a woman's appearance, but I'm not in the business of psychoanalyzing men who engage in misogyny and that is not what my piece was about. My article is strictly about the various bits of theater some misogynists engage in so they can avoid actually coming to grips with what a woman is saying.

Saying that many women read romance novels "because they hate real men" can come close to being a stereotype if you fail to offer anything to back up such an assertion. (Saying simply "women who read romance novels hate real men," IS a stereotype.) For the record, it's quite possible that many women who read romance novels do so because they don't like men in the flesh and an interesting piece could be written on the subject -- so long as you provided verifiable quotes from female romance fans expressing hatred for men.

Do point out "the posters in this thread "who explicitly claim to support HIllary as a response to the misogyny they perceive in the world." I have not found a single one, though I have found numerous comments from people who DON'T support Clinton as a candidate but feel she has been the target of misogyny.