Having found my way here via links found on a Daily Telegraph article relating to the overly-moaned-about gender pay gap, I sense immediately a certain level of belonging and identity; concentrated common sense, at long last.....

Anyway, now for the (slightly corny, perhaps) basics: I'm 25, and reside in the southwesterly city of Exeter, England. I am not a misogynist; I would imagine that a good majority of you aren't, either, yet will be only too familiar with the idea of having to emphasise this, given that the term now seems to be bandied about to the extent that anyone who has the 'audacity' to question feminism, or pretty much any group of women, ever, is labelled automatically with it.

My gripe tends not to be with women, so much as a society which favours them constantly, whilst somehow still pupporting to favour men. A society which throws a hissy-fit at the slightest of things that are said against women, yet which condones and even encourages sexism against men. A society which teaches males to place females on pedestals, and females to ridicule males. A society which condemns severely traditional practices which favour men, yet which upholds totally practices which favour women.

I look forward to reading about all of your logical, unbrainwashed thoughts.

Now that's what I call an introduction. Welcome.

dyslexic_banana, I know I've seen your handle before, but for the life of me I can't remember where. At any rate, welcome.

You got it dyslexic_banana.
Welcome. You will find mostly common sense here, and reason and humour too.
Just ordinary regular guys like you and me. You are right we are not misogynistic. We oppose hate speech or stupid talk or violence in any shape or form.
For me anti-misandry means anti-hate. I come here because in part it assures me I am not going mad, and I am not alone in observing ALL around me -- all that you describe.

Greetings.

Thank you, and thank you.

I also make occasional visits to a misogyny forum, run by 'nice guy'. This probably throws suspicion upon my claim to be non-misogynistic, but I go there only because, whilst not holding the strong views many there do, I agree totally with many of the points they make. It would be amazing a coincidence, were it not to have been here that you recognise my handle from. Thank you for your reply. It's very refreshing to come across a female member, around these parts.

The term 'misogynist' might as well be changed to 'non-misandrist', given that it only takes for one to highlight men's issues, and this is the response one gets. Never fails to amuse me, how feminists practically hyper-ventilate, upon being labelled 'man-haters', only to then label 'misogynistic' anyone who 'dares' question their bigoted beliefs. In the 'Urban Dictionary', the definition of a 'misogynist' is "someone who wins an argument with a feminist"; I knew someone would have added a definition to this effect, before I checked. I don't wish to sound arrogant, but we are far from going mad; folk like us (male or female) are the enlightened, unbrainwashed logical minority; I was exaggerating not, in my opening post. I'm sure I'll see some very good posts from yourself.

Thank you, and nice to 'meet' you.

Apologies for the multiple posting, but I decided to do things the lazy way.

No probs bud, for future reference though there are two quote buttons, one of which is plain and the other has a plus (+) symbol to it.

If you click the plain quote, it will automatically go into a reply screen with the quoted text included (which you can then remove the unecessary parts of).. However, if you click the quote+ (multiquote) button it will change colour and await you to add more quote+s or hit reply... By using the multiquote function, it encapsulates each quoted entry within it's own identifer although within a single post, as oppose multiple posts.

HTH