Re: The word origin, I don't literally know the entire history of the word. But it has risen to prominence, particularly in recent years, because of so-called "men's rights groups," which are disgustingly misogynistic organizations dedicated, generally, to promoting the rights of men to hate and harm women and promoting a victim complex among privileged men that enables them to continue hating and harming women.
The people who hate men are very few, very far between, and generally lack any societal power to actually hurt men beyond hurting their feelings. It isn't an issue. (I have literally in my entire life only met two women who actually hated men. Both of them are victims of rape and horrible abuse and mistreatment from men. I don't see any problem with it. Considering the harm and abuse that men commit to women, it's hard for me to say there's anything wrong at all with a woman hating men - especially when studies are released saying, for instance, that one in twelve men has committed rape, and that 60% admit they would rape if they knew they would get away with it, to say nothing of the general privilege and sexism men exhibit on a daily basis with street harassment, aggressive treatment of women, abuse, rape, and murder. 90% of rape victims are female and virtually 100% of rapists are men. Think about that, would you?)
As for television shows depicting violence against men... excuse me while I kind of lol because I have literally never seen a television show that "targeted male victims" just because they were men. That does not happen. Period.
Look at television shows. Look who the victims are. Look at your crime shows - Law & Order SVU, Criminal Minds. Who are your victims? Who are the corpses on the floor in the beginning of the episode, or the crying victim on the hospital bed? THEY ARE WOMEN. By and large, women are the victims of violence on television shows.
Or does it not count, to you, if they're already victims by the time you see them on your screen? Does the dead body of a woman victimized by a man not "count"?
Violence against women - and depictions of it in television - are RAMPANT. They are everywhere. Look up the trope of the "women stuffed in refrigerator" - using the deaths of women for cheap, emotional drama for male characters is a huge, huge thing. Framing violence against women only as it effects the man/men in their lives is also a great big sexist trope. And let's not forget how many women on television are hit, smacked, are victims of violent crime or even sexual assault just because "they deserve it" - because they did something in the story that hurt a man, or that wasn't considered "feminine." Using rape as a cheap plotline for drama (or as a cheap backstory device) is extremely common as well.
Look at your TV shows. They don't hate men. They don't depict "violence against men." They depict violence against WOMEN.
"Though I would argue that hatred of anyone based on gender or gender expression often has roots in misogyny." Then why the hell are you in here arguing that some supposed "misandry" exists? For fuck's sake.
Re: inb4 "DIE SCUM DIE"
The people who hate men are very few, very far between, and generally lack any societal power to actually hurt men beyond hurting their feelings. It isn't an issue. (I have literally in my entire life only met two women who actually hated men. Both of them are victims of rape and horrible abuse and mistreatment from men. I don't see any problem with it. Considering the harm and abuse that men commit to women, it's hard for me to say there's anything wrong at all with a woman hating men - especially when studies are released saying, for instance, that one in twelve men has committed rape, and that 60% admit they would rape if they knew they would get away with it, to say nothing of the general privilege and sexism men exhibit on a daily basis with street harassment, aggressive treatment of women, abuse, rape, and murder. 90% of rape victims are female and virtually 100% of rapists are men. Think about that, would you?)
As for television shows depicting violence against men... excuse me while I kind of lol because I have literally never seen a television show that "targeted male victims" just because they were men. That does not happen. Period.
Look at television shows. Look who the victims are. Look at your crime shows - Law & Order SVU, Criminal Minds. Who are your victims? Who are the corpses on the floor in the beginning of the episode, or the crying victim on the hospital bed? THEY ARE WOMEN. By and large, women are the victims of violence on television shows.
Or does it not count, to you, if they're already victims by the time you see them on your screen? Does the dead body of a woman victimized by a man not "count"?
Violence against women - and depictions of it in television - are RAMPANT. They are everywhere. Look up the trope of the "women stuffed in refrigerator" - using the deaths of women for cheap, emotional drama for male characters is a huge, huge thing. Framing violence against women only as it effects the man/men in their lives is also a great big sexist trope. And let's not forget how many women on television are hit, smacked, are victims of violent crime or even sexual assault just because "they deserve it" - because they did something in the story that hurt a man, or that wasn't considered "feminine." Using rape as a cheap plotline for drama (or as a cheap backstory device) is extremely common as well.
Look at your TV shows. They don't hate men. They don't depict "violence against men." They depict violence against WOMEN.
"Though I would argue that hatred of anyone based on gender or gender expression often has roots in misogyny." Then why the hell are you in here arguing that some supposed "misandry" exists? For fuck's sake.