Why does society hate women

Both groups believe that women pose an immediate threat to all men. MGTOW believe that women are extremely likely to make false accusations of sexual or domestic violence, in order to damage men socially, steal their money or even have them jailed.

Unable to stop thinking about Sherratt, I tracked him down to ask about his experience of becoming involved in the community. I had lots of friends, which was new to me, lots of fans and positive reinforcement. As we started to grow and build, it honestly felt like we were eventually going to start making some positive change. Sherratt could not, however, claim to be a pioneer.

As with many areas of the manosphere, it is difficult to know where most users of MGTOW forums and communities are based, though the majority communicate in English, and comments and user names suggest that the US, Canada and the UK are common locations. An mgtow. The laws are in desperate need of a revamp but all I see around me are docile willing men led to the slaughter. It is, one imagines, very difficult for a man to release himself completely from the toxic impact of women while entangled within a community feverishly obsessed with, well, women.

Soon afterwards, he left the community, having met a girl who rather unsurprisingly shared his criticisms. Yet it has, in some ways, quietly penetrated mainstream culture more successfully than any other segment of the manosphere. In the immediate wake of the MeToo movement, which saw millions of women worldwide standing up to sexual harassment and assault by sharing their own stories, there was a swift and severe backlash.

Some commentators settled for hounding women who had dared to share their stories, or denigrating the movement as a whole. But gradually another response emerged, borrowing its ideology directly from MGTOW: avoiding women at all costs. It started with rumours: women reporting that men in their offices had suddenly started declining meetings with them or were insisting on leaving the door open.

A human resources consultant reported executives telling her that they would no longer get into an elevator alone with a woman. Suddenly, it began to snowball -— story after story of men abruptly cancelling business lunches or avoiding women they had previously mentored. In the same way that the MGTOW movement turns the structural oppression of women on its head, claiming men are the true victims of gender bias, this spate of mainstream examples sought to cast men as the real victims of the MeToo movement.

Men, it argued, had little choice but to protect themselves from the all-powerful cabal of rampaging, vindictive women making false accusations. Even if the solution was as extreme as total isolation. If someone in your hospital says you had inappropriate contact with this woman, you get suspended for an investigation, and your life is over.

Does that ever leave you? The woman-shunning has even penetrated as far as the White House , where the vice-president, Mike Pence, spawned what is now known as the Pence Rule after he remarked that he would never eat a meal alone with a woman who is not his wife.

Reporting on such an idea might have once been seen as inflammatory or biased, requiring careful and robust presentation of opposing arguments. But, as soon as it was attached to Pence, it became respectable fodder for widespread coverage. Just a thought. Before long, a book had been published to spread the word. Be smart Defend yourself, your career, your family and your life from the false accusations of women today and into the future.

Nor does it remain a niche idea: a study found that 27 per cent of American men now avoid one-on-one meetings with female colleagues. So the ideas we might think of as the shadowy, ridiculous concerns of the extreme internet fringes are actually being waved under our very noses from the White House front lawn.

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Learn more and compare subscriptions content expands above. Such tactics are predicated on the idea that women are just Pavlovian reflex machines, without agency or choice. Both groups, Bates points out, essentially think of women as slot machines for sex. And this stuff filters upwards through friendly media and middlemen such as far-right commentator Milo Yiannopoulos , so that men at the top can speak in code to their supporters.

As Bates shows, moreover, sexism and anti-immigrant rhetoric often go hand in hand, via the conspiracy theory that foreigners challenge the rightful supremacy of the white male.