Well, that'll teach me to go mucking around LJ in the wee hours....

[badstar]

I stumbled upon this community

http://community.livejournal.com/athena_amazon/

and was perusing it out of morbid curiosity when I ran across this, er, gem....

Do you feel that one gender is, by nature, superior to the other? Explain your answer.
Women are superior by virtue of biology. We are the first form, males are mutated and stunted women. Their reproductive organs have 'fallen' out of their bodies to dangle and the hemispheres of their brains do not have sufficient connections to allow for balanced, reasoned and emotional thought.

I'm embarrassed to be a woman when I read things like this.

Yeah, because misandry is sooooo much better than misogyny. (Heh...Firefox's spellchecker doesn't recognize "misandry" as a word...)

Comments

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

Well, men have been thinking the exact same thing about women for centuries, I guess they think its their turn now.

People like this are the reason we have lobotomies.

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

Firefox's spellchecker doesn't recognize "misandry" as a word.
That's because the word is "misanthropy".

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I read your comment correctly. Clarify?

Are you saying that it's okay whoever posted that because men have been dumping on women for too long, or that men should expect it even though it's not okay, or something else entirely?

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

No.

misanthropy means "hatred of humankind" (men AND women)
misandry means "hatred of men"

[needa.livejournal.com]

Y'know, my first thought when reading it was that it had to be taken out of context, and that it was written as an exercise in Devil's Advocate. (I do think it's fun to take an absurd, ridiculous position and advocate it strongly, just for the mental exercise.)

...and then I went to the original like for context. I really can't tell if she's trolling or if she means it. Is that good or bad?

[fuego.livejournal.com]

I'm reasonably sure it's meant seriously. She's slightly more extreme than the other posts that I read over, but very much in line with the community's purpose and all that (The community guidelines do nothing to establish a stance that indicates that while they may be all "I am woman, hear me roar", it doesn't mean that they think women are superior to men blah blah blah like many such communities do. And while no one has responded in favor to the post, no one has responded negatively either. And that post has been there for quite some time. If it were actually a troll, my guess is that there would be comments to the effect, or that it would have been erased. This is only speculation...but I have only encountered one livejournal user that is considered a troll by many folks who will make posts that people never respond to, yet they never get taken down. (unfortunately that individual frequents a number of communities that I do....) eh, who knows?)

[ranger-hotsauce.livejournal.com]

I stand corrected. Interestingly, it seems the word "misandry" was created in 1945 precisely because there was no word that meant the opposite of "misogynist".

[fuego.livejournal.com]

heh...i did not realize that it was such a recently-created word...

[chironcentaur.livejournal.com]

It was sarcasm. There is actually little I hate more than listening to some feminists bitch and complain about things men have said about women while feeling it is perfectly okay to turn around and say the exact same thing about men. If its not okay for them its not okay for you, period no exceptions.

[fuzzyr.livejournal.com]

Thanks for clarifying. I agree with all you said then.