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Misandry (/mɪsˈændri/) is the hatred of or prejudice against men or boys.^[1]^[2]

Men's rights activists (MRAs) and other masculinist groups have characterized modern laws concerning divorce, domestic violence, conscription, circumcision (known as male genital mutilation by opponents), and treatment of male rape victims as examples of institutional misandry. However, in virtually all societies, misandry lacks institutional and systemic support comparable to misogyny, the hatred of women.^[3]^[4]^[5]

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.^[4]^[6]

MRAs have been criticised for promoting a false equivalence between misandry and misogyny,^[7]^: 132^[8]^[9] as part of an antifeminist backlash.^[8]^[10]^[11]^[12]^[13] The false idea that misandry is commonplace among feminists is so widespread that it has been called the "misandry myth" by 40 topic experts.^[14]

^ "misandry". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/OED/5787175758. Retrieved 6 May 2025. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.) Earliest recorded use: 1885. "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." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine September 289/1.
^ "Misandry" Archived 19 July 2013 at the Wayback Machine at Merriam-Webster online ("First Known Use: circa 1909")
^ Cite error: The named reference Gilmore p12 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ ^a ^b Ouellette, Marc (2007). "Misandry". In Flood, Michael; et al. (eds.). International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities. New York: Routledge. pp. 442–443. doi:10.4324/9780203413067. ISBN 978-1-1343-1707-3.
^ Ferguson, Frances; Bloch, R. Howard (1989). Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-520-06546-8.
^ Cite error: The named reference Riggio p432 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Kimmel, Michael S. (5 November 2013). Angry white men : American masculinity at the end of an era. New York: Nation Books. ISBN 978-1-56858-696-0. OCLC 852681950.
^ ^a ^b Cite error: The named reference Marwick p553 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Ging, Debbie; Siapera, Eugenia (July 2018). "Special issue on online misogyny: Introduction" (PDF). Feminist Media Studies. 18: 515–524. doi:10.1080/14680777.2018.1447345. ISSN 1471-5902. S2CID 149613969. Retrieved 21 January 2023 – via Dublin City University.
^ Barker, Kim; Jurasz, Olga (2018). Online Misogyny as Hate Crime: A Challenge for Legal Regulation?. New York: Routledge. p. 4. doi:10.4324/9780429956805. ISBN 978-1-138-59037-3.
^ Berger, Michele Tracy; Radeloff, Cheryl (2014). Transforming Scholarship: Why Women's and Gender Studies Students Are Changing Themselves and the World (2nd ed.). New York: Routledge. pp. 128–129. doi:10.4324/9780203458228. ISBN 978-1-135-04519-7.
^ Cite error: The named reference Sugiura p102 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ 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. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 91–120. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-12633-9_4. ISBN 978-3-030-12633-9.
^ Cite error: The named reference Hopkins-Doyle 2023 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).