It's Almost Funny Until Someone is Killed

There is something about misogyny that even women sometimes get behind, and I don't even mean in a snotty Phyllis Schlafly full-throated sister-shafting kind of way. It's the funny joke where whenever women have spaces, it's because they have something against men. Feminists are called "Feminazis". It's assumed some are men-haters. They are feminists because they are womaning badly. The feminist is sketchy, possibly lesbian, likely fat, blaming men for her fuckups, and out for blood. Some women like the marginalization of feminism because they can show they themselves are cool and not-feminist--not weird, judge-y, man-hating, or against all things dick. It's a position with good male focus-grouping.

So, you take a guy who is just weirdly litigious for absurd right-wing/misogynous causes, like being against Ladies' Nights at bars and clubs. Huh. Seems merely eccentric and meninist. Such a person seems pretty human-interest-y, right? But now this same person is suspected of targeting the family of a judge, killing her son and injuring her husband. and also seems to have thousands of pages of hate that he has written about. Keeping in mind the carnage of Eliot Rodger and other MRA-affiliated killers, it seems pretty likely that misogyny was a big part of his intention to kill, and it no longer seems funny or eccentric.

Fox News had Mr. Den Hollander on  occasionally, which isn't a surprise, because the entire network is pretty antifeminist. Which you can kind of tell not just because of the programing, but because of the rape culture it has pretty much always been a big enabler of. Like, Roger Ailes--mad sexual harassment. Or Bill O'Reilly. Insane sexual harassment.  Or just everyday sexual harassment. Or Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson-related sexual harassment with Ed Henry being a rapist. It's just always a part of the FOX culture, apparently. And it looks as if promoting a view that women are a suspect class of potential feminazis of delinquent values might result in violence against them.

But conservatives in real life mirror these stupid, dangerous, anti-women values, as well. So Ted Yoho calls AOC a "fucking bitch".  And the Freedom Caucus thought they would beat up on Liz Cheney because she is self-confident and doesn't suck-up to Donald Trump. What if listening to women because we might not be stupid instead of lashing out at us was practiced more regularly? What if contradicting the words of almighty men was seen as our privilege and right as people who also think and have a POV?

I guess that would be different from how things are now. But I think they would be better.