Rather brief, I was hoping for more.
No citations for all the "studies" and "statistics" the author read.

While I enjoyed reading this book, the idea of misandry and hatred being written as a way to push the feminist movement forward seems, for the lack of a better word, “dumb” to me.
There’s a reason why hatred has never helped make any situation better.
While hatred is an emotion that is completely normal and in this case, justified. Trying to encourage and embed it into the roots of a movement that fights against oppression and violence is sort of ironical.
The author does put forward some interesting thoughts about heterosexual relationships and also women staying single, but there’s nothing that’s really groundbreaking in the book except for the discussion on misandry.
But it was a short read and I’m glad to have been through a book that has caused such a stir.

I’d recommend “The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity and Love by Bell Hooks”, which is my current read to people who are trying to find a book which discusses the effect of patriarchy on men and how they are indeed essential in the fight for equality. This is NOT a book that JUSTIFIES men’s oppression but rather takes a deep look at it and tries to have healthy discussions on it.
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While I can see why people criticise this book, I thought it provided some good insights into how persistent the patriarchy is and how it’s often ingrained into both sexes psyche. ( )

Why, Mrs. Harmange , when you state you believe women are powerless to stop this, do you believe men can? Why then hate us when that's turns out not to be true? Do I, as a man, have any louder a say on this issue than a woman? Any bigot, abuser, murderer or other such actively destructive misanthrope engendered by our culture can only be stopped by all of us together. The confrontational approach of feminists only aggravates the situation, and loses any sympathy there otherwise may be for their cause. All you're saying here is "we can't stop this alone". But rather than engage with others and solicit their assistance rationally, you automatically condemn before them there's any attempt to even put your case.

I loathe feminists. I equally loathe chauvinists.

Please stop with all this "it's your fault" and simply continue to highlight the issues that disgust us all so we can all work together to solve them. The "Full Stop" campaign did not demonise men as a whole, only those loathsome enough to commit these atrocities, and asked us *all* to help. You'll never influence behaviour when you crassly persecute half the population simply for having been born. Continue to do that, and you'll simply add to the numbers of those unwilling to take women seriously - and feminists in particular.

Anyone who uses physical violence against another person (except in self defense) deserves nothing but contempt. I'm not sure many people would disagree. Others can argue about statistics, which I always mistrust, and about who does what to whom more often and whether or not they report it to the police. Still, the most common situation I see when I'm out and about involving violence is mothers hitting their children. And if you've ever tried speaking out about that, you'll KNOW what thanks you'll get for it. Does this mean women are more violent than men? Of course not. Does this mean that children who grow up thinking violence is a way to get a message across are the victims of female indoctrination? Probably not. But if I wrote a book with a headline "Why I hate women - at least those who beat their children, and those who do nothing to stop it" would I be guilty of misogyny? Of course I would. And if I wanted to try to reduce the incidence of children being brutalised in this way, it would be a self-defeating book to boot. It's not that we disagree Harmange. But if you want a fruitful debate, your book (and its pathetic qualification) are never going to achieve it.

With this line of inquiry, I think Harmange's hit a rich seam of material for future books. I look forward to next one, "Why I hate blacks - At least those who perpetrate robberies and those who do nothing to stop it", and perhaps "Why I hate Muslims - At least those who murder in the name of Islam and those who do nothing to stop it". Of course, some might argue that this viewpoint is simplistic and unhelpful. But what's an internet blog for, if not for people like yourself to display their stupidity and ignorance to the aghast world?

The trouble with books like these is that it reinforces tribalism. Male, female, gay, straight, black, white, young, old, Jewish, Muslim, Christian, atheist ....within all these groups are people of all kinds- compassionate and definitely not so. The moment we pigeonhole people - according to some broad definition or other- and then say it is okay to hate them, we perpetuate the deep violence which is latent in the human race. Let's go for compassion and then deal with injustice when it arises in specific cases with individual people, or groups which have a explicit policy of aggression or oppression or have institutionalised it informally. ( )