Do you think misandry & misogyny are direct opposites?

I think misogyny is a hatred of the entire concept of women existing as independent beings from men, and misandry is the hatred of the actions of men (not all men, but always a man).

Misandry is a response to misogyny. It wouldn’t exist if women were being treated as human beings from the get-go

By the way, these definitions came out of the exact same dictionary. I didn’t like cherry pick at all.

Mistreatment of women and hating the existence of women are two different things. I think both can exist independently of each other. Plus there are women who hate women and men who hate men. Life is not all or nothing, there are grey areas.

Yes, I think it’s easy to say misandry is a response to misogyny but it’s women whose hatred for men is so deep it even directed at their sons. You can hate actions but to blindly hate all men (males) is extreme.

A lot more people claim to be misandrist than who truly are too though which is where I think the misrepresentation comes from.

I'm not saying the girls have it worse I am saying that both genders are experiencing different types of abuse but abused at the same rate. However both of these come from the system put in place by misogyny.

So if we did keep feminism and fight against misogyny, the misandry and the effects (disparite abuses) would lower if not cease.

“Misandry” has been a term weaponized by men in response to women merely responding and reacting to inequality. It is not the same, and it’s not really the opposite. It’s really just another way for men to find a tool to combat our grievances and avoid the responsibility. Misogyny includes systematic oppression or inequality, it isn’t rooted in a reaction to imbalance of power or inequality, it stems from patriarchal systems that have shaped the culture of how men perceive women as a whole.