Rex Kerr
Jun 9, 2023

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Lots of other good points in your article, but are you sure about this? Of the specific examples you give, some are explicitly misogynistic, but a lot of the behavior in Queen Bees and Wannabes doesn't look misogynistic at all but rather like an emotionally-rich jousting for status within one's social group; and also, I'm not sure competing for attention from the opposite sex really ought to be classified as misogyny or misandry or we'd have to classify guys doing dumb but impressive stuff in front of other guys (and putting down their guy friends who can't) to impress girls as "misandry".

I suppose in a way it is technically misandry. But the specifics are different enough that I'm not sure it's helpful to use the same term.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

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One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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