A Right to Hate?
In August, French blogger Pauline Harmange published a booklet titled Moi les hommes, je les dΓ©teste (Me, men, I loathe them), which caused quite a stir in France (and a little bit outside France as well). The book β supposedly β is a protest against misogyny (hatred of women), by taking up the opposite point of view of misandry (hatred of men). βSupposedlyβ, because Iβm not sure exactly about the bookβs arguments as it is no longer available and I have thus been unable to read it. In any case, it is not this book itself that is the topic...
On Gender Chauvinism
abstract β Male chauvinism is the belief that men are morally superior to women. Female chauvinism is the belief that women are morally superior to men. Both depend on the assumption of essential or natural gender differences between men and women with regards to thinking styles, most easily summarized as male principle-based thinking and female empathic thinking. There is no evidence for such a gender difference, however, but there is evidence that differences in experience and circumstances can lead to relevant differences. People who care (often women) become more caring, for example. By implication, gender chauvinism is based on false...