Why are there so many men on here who feel threatened by "feminists?"?

Question

I mean really, every other question is like

FEMINISTS HATE MEN

FEMINISTS ARE UGLY

FEMINISTS LAUGH AT MY TINY p***s

Come on chaps, just chill out. What on earth do you think is going to happen on a message board to make you unsafe? Why not just stop being antagonistic, and take the opportunity to make some friends?

Answer 1

I am no expert on the matter but it seems to me that those with a weak character feel threatened by those who appear tough and seemingly independant I guess.

Answer 2

Obviously, a forum like this is going to attract men who want to deride and attack women, from behind the relative anonymity and safety of their computer screens.

Wherever women gather on the internet ~ including sites for first time mothers who want to discuss breastfeeding, men who don't like women can be found making nasty comments.

That's one reason many sites are heavily moderated. A friend who runs a forum for mature mums said she was hassled from day one by two male posters who insisted on having a 'right' to post as 'mature dads', even when it became clear they were neither mature, nor fathers. They took every opportunity to scream about 'censorship' and how their rights were being infringed, while at the same time disrupting every sensible conversation, often with sickening language and conversations about pornography and other inappropriate rubbish.

In the end, she was forced to moderate the forum quite intensively, which meant posts were delayed and the forum started to be of less interest to the posters.

The most interesting aspect ... once it started to become obvious women were not congegating there in such numbers anymore, the two troublemakers disappeared and she found them at another site for mature mums, up to the same mischief.

The same thing happens here in a comparitively unmoderated environment. Many posters of value ~ male and female ~ get tired of the constant barrage of 'what about me' whining, disgusting comments and juvenile antics filling page after page, and simply go elsewhere. The trolls count sitting in an empty room yelling "I knew you were all against me" as a victory. Go figure.

I suspect these type of guys don't have a lot of interaction with women in real life, or have had a lot of negative interaction. They don't have good self images, feel persecuted and defensive that life has handed them lemons, and are not the type to learn how to make lemonade.

If you hang around for a while, you'll notice that it is not actually "so many men" but the same sad few over and again, with multiple screen names, IDs and avatars ~ and the exact same spelling mistakes and errors of logical and grammar.

Just scroll past their questions, because they'll never say anything new or challenging, and you'll find there are a number of posters who do have some more interesting thoughts to offer!

Cheers :-)

Answer 3

FEMINISTS LAUGH AT MY TINY p***s

lol yeah that's a common one :-)

Answer 4

threatened could work I suppose... Did you read the new VAWA? I guess not most people look at the names and say yippie. I wouldn't be surprised if it was ruled unconstitutional before the year is out.

       Feminists cry a river over a small difference between men in pay in certain field's but when it comes to education well they ignore the fact that male students are struggling and still insist we are not doing enough to help "girl" students.

   Combined with the feminist reaction to paternity fraud.. I don't think it is as much threatened but disgusted, annoyed and a mixture of frustration at how people can be so demeaning and hateful on one hand but on another lie threw there teeth about there hateful ways.

Answer 5

I disagree. Every other question does not say that.

You supply no proof or references to support your theory.

The thought of having a feminist as a friend is laughable.

Answer 6

I'm not threatened, I just find them amusing.

I laughed at your question, you deserve a pat on the back. :) find a willing hand, now's good!

edit: meh

Answer 7

There are women, or at least those who claim to be women, who make negative comments about feminists, too.  But to answer your question, I don't think men, even anti-feminist men, are "threatened" by feminists.  But I do think there are quite a few men who feel increasingly disenfranchised from contemporary society and are understandbily angered by this. The role of men has been devalued and not too many folks are promoting the positive aspects of masculinity.   Feminists are a convenient target for angry men and those who claim to be feminists on this forum often fuel the antagonism.  This forum has, unfortunately, become little more than a place for angry people to vent and for those with polarized views to recruit like-minded folks.  Asking men to chill out suggests that it is the men who are the problem.  Your question, however well meaning, is antagonstic, itself.

Answer 8

It's like at MHS; if they come up against feminist who challenges them, it scares them, they turn these women from an "us" (most, normal people) into a "them" (scary, correct people).

Answer 9

yea its silly to feel threatened by "feminists" we are bringing fairness to you all you will have music, and ice cream

don't ever worry and feel sad, be like me and be good

Answer 10

I think it is a fear of castration on their part

Answer 11

My p***s is tiny :(

Answer 12

Feminism as an ideology per se has nothing to do with manhating, disenfranchising them or challenging their masculinity...However, 'feminisms' as conflict theory explicating societal structure have often been reinterpreted and oversimplified by men (and anti feminist women) to dismiss the whole agenda.  Not all feminists are radical...indeed, not all feminist are white, western and middle class.  Not all feminists are striving for material equality with men...it is a question of challenging political and cultural subordination and that is a matter of emancipation. The 3rd wave of feminism is rolling in from the under developed nations...and this has everything to do with securing fundamental human rights for women, and still nothing to do with disempowering men!

As for being chilled...always! Not frigid, bitter, single or hairy! Go figure! A feminist.

Answer 13

I think it's because the whole feminist stereotypes as you meantion above- feminists have been given a bad rap since it started, maybe to send women the other way and deminision any equality opportunity for women, maybe these's stereotypes are right from the 50's/60's when the whole feminist thing started- and the feminists still haven't managed to shake it off- plus sometimes feminists can be mistaken for the radical feminists- and men may fear that eventually women will be higher than men, and that all feminists want to chop of there genitals and throw them in cages.  Although I've seen the other questions- they were typed by women!!

Answer 14

I am afraid of no feminist just would like to know why they think there so oppressed.

Answer 15

Most of the women here are fair.  With that said here are a few things to keep in mind:

We are threatened by unfair laws.  Why are you being antagonistic and then asking men not to be?  How many "friends" with men here do you expect to make with the above statements?

Besides I don't have a tiny p***s so that statement is moot.  How can you make friends with humans who have taken away your wife, job,

children, country and dignity?*

I'm so glad you are here to be a peacemaker.

Answer 16

Hate is always ugly - no matter the shape it comes in.

Sadly many people are very materialistic and cant see beyond physics (or even have sufficent empathy) to be able to see any diffrent.

Jammygal ... I have a very dangerous question to ask you.

Do you think that what you are saying in your question is right, as in true?

Answer 17

Feminists don't want friends, they want stereotypes to confirm their suspicions that all men are evil.

How come so many women fear men criticising feminists and need to resort to talking about p***s size/insinuating men are g*y/treating them like children simply because they hold a different point of view? The level of maturity is pretty low on both sides, but at least the men are funnier.

Answer 18

Not threatened, bored.

Answer 19

Don't confuse criticizing feminists and pointing out their hypocrisy with "feeling threatened".  

You got a lot of catching up to do...

Answer 20

After an argument with my wife I said to her why don't you get out?  Go and find a man with a big one .She says I don't want a man with a big one, I want you.

I think the only real fear is that you are going to try and take our women.

Answer 21

We can be anti-feminist in the anonymity of Yahoo Answers whereas we don't dare do it in the real world!

Answer 22

Many feminists do hate men.

Many feminists are in point of fact ugly.

Feminists do not laugh at my p***s because it is far from tiny.

The reason why men feel threatened by feminists is because feminists have caused immense damage to the fabric of our society.  It is feminist lies and dogma that has been partially responsible for the erosion of family values and the low value placed on men in family relationships.  Families and therefore children have suffered greatly because of these evil feminists.

The first feminists were great women who deserve our admiration because they bravely fought oppression.

Contemporary radical feminists are the evil ones, the man haters who damage our society.   Many of these women are emotionally damaged.

Contemporary (ordinary) feminists are very stupid women who follow a doctrine they do not understand.

Answer 23

LMAO get some new material. This is same old Straw Man argument and attempt to shame Men into silence. We are indifferent to the insults trying something new like Logic, Reason, Empirical Evidence... Oh I forgot those are "Tools of the Patriarchy"!!

Men are under the oppression of Government and public policies that are intended to wreck our lives. Our Freedoms are being curtailed, the Courts and Judicial system has been turned against us. Real Oppression is ignored. In the US we have had our Second Honor Killing incident. This time in Georgia. Where a Pakistani Father strangled his Daughter. In January of this year an Egyptian Father executed his two daughters. Both teenagers attending High School in Lewisville Texas.

Yet if you read the major Feminist sites it never happened. Feminists have a litany of insults, Cannot Get Laid, Loser, Small Genitalia, Living in Parents Basement, etc. Same nonsense. Here is a clue we Don't care what you think. Men are finally tired of the unending Gender War being waged against us by Feminists.

On this very site. A Feminist posted that I approved of the Rape of my own daughter. And It was not censored or removed. Yet Feminists have had my postings deleted, questions removed etc. Moral cowardice and malignant narcissism define Feminism in the US. This is not my opinion alone. It is also Tammy Bruce's who was the President of the Los Angeles Chapter of NOW for 7 years.

Everywhere Feminism is being embraced Western Nations Birth rates are plummeting and Marriage and stable Families are declining. This is reality not my opinion. And in Europe Moslem populations are exploding. Feminists ignore this reality and have no answers to it. Your Daughters and Granddaughters better get used to wearing a Bhurka. That is where we are headed. Allahu Ahkbar.

Answer 24

They're not threatened.  They just refuse to accept  feminists rampant misandry and hypocrisy.

Answer 25

this "threatened" theory has been doing the rounds a bit, its an interesting theory, bet you wish the answer was as simple as that.

:  )

edit, just emailed ya.

I think we have all heard a lot of negative stuff about men coming from the feminist camp in the last few decades  , maybe that's got something to do with it?

Answer 26

Nothing wrong with feminists, I like being whipped into shape..:)

Answer 27

I put a lot of thought into my response and the deepest, most thoughtful and appropriate response I could garner is that, well, they're insecure little toadies.

Answer 28

Whether you want to admit it or not, hairy feminist bullies can strike fear into any man's heart.

Answer 29

No. I just think you're railing against something that isn't that great a problem. Men take precedence in life sometimes, and you think it indicative of something wider. I see just as much women having advantage over men in life. Feminists are trying to enforce an artificial equality; men and women in the West have equal rights now in law, and equal standing in society. Any inequalities, and they exist on both sides, are a result of there being a different nature, but it is generally a happy medium. If feminists want to help women they should go to Afghanistan or Sudan, were women genuinely do suffer oppression. Oh, and...

FEMINISTS DO HATE MEN

Answer 30

Because these guys think that

Feminiists hate them and feminists laugh at their tiny penises.

The first is wrong, the second probably correct.

Answer 31

Feminists keep reporting my posts. Does this show that feminists are open minded or capable of debate? I don't think so.

Do feminists hate men: Yes. They say hateful things e.g. the classic "All men are rapists and that's all they are" - Marilyn French.

And make hateful laws e.g. “Mexican men who display extreme jealousy or avoid s*x with their wives could be tried in court and punished under a new law”

http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnou...

Are feminists ugly?  I don't want to generalise, but a bit of the hated tool of oppression - makeup  - wouldn't go amiss http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1344/8437...

I'm not sure if makeup could save Andrea Dworkin though.

Yes, on G&WS feminsts often make sarcastic remarks about p***s size instead of addressing the issue.

"Come on chaps, just chill out". Because feminists are so chilled, right?