Ah, a nice bit of gaslighting. Classy as ever, droid. But actually I feel fine. Thanks for asking all the same.
OK, I'm going to explain, as fully as possible, why dogmatic feminism is fuelling misogyny, and then you, Benny and anyone else can tell me exactly where I've argued either from false facts or through unsound logic. Fair? Then I actually, really will shut up about it.
A few pages ago, Benny cryptically alluded to
the 'oh but but men suffer domestic violence too' crowd
which, if I'm reading this correctly, he supposes to necessarily be awful frothing misogynists. What actually is your problem with this "crowd", Benny? Is the implication that men
aren't sometimes victims of domestic violence? Because
the ONS says they constitute over a third of victims. Which is less than half, of course, but it's still hardly an insignificant number of people. And there's a wide range of serious social issues that specifically or predominantly affect men, such as depression and mental illness, addiction, homelessness, incarceration and suicide. The insistence that anyone who cares about these issues or wants to do something about them must be an 'MRA' and therefore the enemy becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because it naturally alienates women and non-misogynist men until only the real misogynists are left.
To give an example: UK universities have blocked attempts by students to set up men's societies, along the lines of women's societies, which could have provided a space - a safe space, in fact! - for young men to receive advice, support and mentoring. They could have been a great way to encourage young men with problems such as depression, anxiety, or issues with self-image and self-esteem - of whom there are very, very many - to think in constructive and progressive ways about all sorts of things. Including, it hardly need be said, women. But they invariably face calls to be closed before they even start. The implication is either than men don't have problems - not
real problems, like women have - or that they should man the fuck up, have a pint and a laugh and just get on with it. When in fact the idea that men don't have real problems is abundantly disproven by the gender split in statistics like mental illness, substance abuse and suicide, while the idea that men should just suck it up and deal with it sounds like exactly the sort of 'toxic masculinity' that feminists are - rightly! - always complaining about. The kind of emotional constipation that causes men to commit violence against each other, against women and all too often against themselves.
Now it's not possible to prevent men from associating together in spaces without women, but if they're prevented from doing so in above-ground, sanctioned places then they will do so in places that are underground and unsanctioned, and these will inevitably end up as absolute cesspits of misogyny - as in 4chan and some of the murkier corners of Reddit, indeed the so-called 'manosphere' generally. A good place to start in tackling this issue would be to listening to men's problems and taking them seriously, rather than - as dogmatic feminists of both sexes tend to do - trivializing or dismissing them.