Misandry in Media

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One day I was playing a videogame and it dawned on me that misandry is so normalized in media that I didn't even realize it until I had an epiphany one day. I was playing a game for an hour and kind of I became bored so I wasn't really paying attention and there was this cutscene and then it dawned on me.

In the cutscene there is this implicit future female romance/love figure character and he walks into a trap. She intentionally set the trap even though they are allies in the game, then he is hoisted by rope on his feet just dangling there for a minute. She arrives there and has an arrogant attitude when talking to him then rudely just cuts the rope while he is still dangling, and he promptly lands on his head, which in real life may have been fatal or broke his neck or something.

The most alarming thing though is I didn't notice the misandry until a few minutes after when I was thinking about the cutscene and then it hit me like an epiphany. Its so normalized in our society, the way modern media treats males is sometimes 10x less than the amount of dignity given to blacks saying "abababuedububacamation" "greasanizin" in 1900s media.

What do you think though? Let me know in the comments below.

Also the overall media seems to brainwash females to act coy at all times instead of declaring their desires. If you think a guy that is hot you should tell him immediately instead of acting the in way media portrays.

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There seems to have been a steady drift toward misandry in the media since the black-and-white sitcom days of the 1950s.

Think about it: All a successful sitcom needs nowadays is a 'hot' mom, one bratty kid, one 'normal' kid, one child genius, and one doofus dad.  It is a formula for successful ratings ever since the Dick Van Dyke show (Buddy Sorel was the bratty 'kid', and Sally Rogers was the 'child' genius).

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There's tons of misandry in the media, especially in advertising. Drives me cuckoo.

I'm not sure that's misandrist.

Not every joke that uses a man as the punchline is misandrist, just like not every joke that uses as woman as the punchline is misogynist.

The idea of a desired person manipulating the person who desires them is a pretty common dramatic trope.

Funny, King of the Hill, Malcolm in the Middle and Bob's Burgers don't rely on doofus dads. You're right that it's an old formula, it's also a formula that is increasingly dated.

The first two have the mom as the nutty one, but does that make King of the Hill misogynistic? No, it makes Peggy an unlikable character.

I wouldn't classify it as a "joke", it was more of something just meant to set the tone.

If the roles were reversed and an attractive male set up a trap on an ally protagonist, then casually cut the rope so that the damsel falls on her head, feminists would be outraged and rightfully so, as that would be a potential life endangering felonious situation. Not to mention, the guy was pretty much a doormat the whole time about it, to set the tone, ie. a subtle way of telling people to "know your place". The whole thing kinda gave me the vibe of one of those dominatrix porns where she steps on some guys balls with high heels, fine if your into that sort of thing, but it was applied in more of a vanilla context.

These things go back and forth over time. The typical programming of the '50s was pretty cringe in terms of most of the husbands being pretty unbearable. I do think that the pengulum will swing back the other way if there's enough people demanding it.

The best ways to speed it up are to call out shows that are doing it, write letters to companies advertising on those shows and submit your own new programs that don't engage in it. If enough people do those things, change will happen fairly quickly. It's more or less the same thing that got us into the current mess.