Traditional gender roles suck rocks for all of us. Femininity and Masculinity are equally toxic constructions when they demand that we stifle ourselves as persons to conform to restrictive notions of Men and Women.

If when you read feminist criticism of gender roles all you see is criticism of Men, I suggest that you are not paying close enough attention.

Wow, now there’s a contradiction in terms.

The answer to the question of why so many men hate feminism is quite simple: we are sick and tired of having the evils of our very existence pounded into our heads from the time we are young boys. I for one cannot imagine how any man who doesn’t feel the need to slit his own throat for having the audacity to take up space on the planet could possibly call himself, or worse yet, *aspire to become* a feminist.

I think the more interesting and telling question is why so many intelligent, competent women I know have both a positive view of men and a negative view of feminism. Hiding behind “backlash” or “media propaganda” doesn’t explain it, either. More likely they are as sick as the rest of us of the incessant victim mentalities and hate-speech.

However, the threads that never revive are the ones with really long comments on them. Excessively long comments discourage the participation of others. It’s nothing personal, truly.

You have a blog of your own - if you want to post that detailed an argument then post it there and post a link here with a summary of your arguments.