In the Internet Age, users posting on manosphere internet forums such as 4chan and subreddits addressing men's rights activism have claimed that misandry is widespread, established in preferential treatment of women, and shown by discrimination against men.[3][4] This viewpoint is denied by most sociologists, anthropologists and scholars of gender studies, who counter that misandry is not a cultural institution and not equivalent in scope to misogyny, which is both far more deeply rooted in society and more severe in its consequences.[5][3][6] The false idea that misandry is commonplace among feminists is so widespread that it has been called the "misandry myth" by 40 topic experts.[7]
Many scholars criticize MRAs for promoting a false equivalence between misandry and misogyny,[8]: 132 [9][10] arguing that modern activism around misandry represents an antifeminist backlash, promoted by marginalized men.[9][11][12][13][14]
^"Misandry" at Oxford English Dictionary Online (ODO), Third Edition, June 2002. Accessed through library subscription on 25 July 2014. Earliest recorded use: 1885. Blackwood's Edinb. Mag, Sept. 289/1 No man whom she cared for had ever proposed to marry her. She could not account for it, and it was a growing source of bitterness, of misogyny as well as misandry.
^ abOuellette, Marc (2007). "Misandry". In Flood, Michael; et al. (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. Routledge. pp. 442–443. ISBN978-1-1343-1707-3.
^Riggio, Heidi R. (2020). "Online Sexism and Anti-Feminism Movements". Sex and Gender: A Biopsychological Approach. Routledge. ISBN978-1-000-06630-2.
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^Barker, Kim; Jurasz, Olga (2018). Online Misogyny as Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation?. Routledge. p. 4. ISBN978-1-138-59037-3.
^Berger, Michele Tracy; Radeloff, Cheryl (2014). Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World. Taylor & Francis. pp. 128–129. ISBN978-1-135-04519-7.
^Sugiura, Lisa (2021). "Legitimising Misogyny". The Incel Rebellion: The Rise of the Manosphere and the Virtual War Against Women. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing Limited. pp. 102–103. doi:10.1108/978-1-83982-254-420211008. ISBN978-1-83982-254-4.
^Lumsden, Karen (2019). "'I Want to Kill You in Front of Your Children' Is Not a Threat. It's an Expression of Desire': Discourses of Online Abuse, Trolling and Violence on r/MensRights". In Karen Lumsden; Emily Hamer (eds.). Online Othering: Exploring Digital Violence and Discrimination on the Web. Palgrave Studies in Cybercrime and Cybersecurity. Springer. pp. 91–120. ISBN978-3-030-12633-9.