'Men built everything.' Debunking manosphere lies
Why "If you don't like men, don't use their creations" isn't the flex misogynist losers think it is.
I sometimes edit, update, and repost older posts for new readers who have not seen them. This is one such post. I’ve expanded it, added new links and writing, and new references. So even if you’ve read it before, I hope you get something new out of it!
“Well fine, then! If you hate men so much, then you better get off the Internet, stop driving cars, and never again enjoy electricity, because they were all invented by men!”
It’s the latest in a series of foot-stamping, lip-pouting, whining bloviations from low-value men.
These men claim that men are the real creators and builders in the world, and that if women have a problem with men they must also have a problem with every good thing men do. And in their minds, the good things some men do—like building things—should extend to all men.
Interestingly, these men also make the racist version of this argument, insisting that everything worthwhile has been built by white men. That’s an especially hilarious claim for a race that literally enslaved others for centuries so they wouldn’t have to work or build things.
So how should you respond when men insist that, because they “built everything worthwhile,” they’re somehow above critique?
This is the first in a new series I’m writing debunking the lies manosphere losers promote. Right wing losers are winning the propaganda war. They speak in sound bites, and we haven’t learned how to respond to them. So we mostly don’t, leaving bystanders to worry that we have no response at all—or worse, that these monsters are right.
You don’t have to argue with every misogynist you meet; mocking and blocking is a much better strategy. But you do need to understand why they are wrong, because the more a message is repeated, the truer it seems. This makes even feminists vulnerable to misogynistic propaganda.
As the series grows, I’ll publish the rest of it here. To learn more about the manosphere, how feminists can counter it, and how it harms men, click here, here, here, or here.