mystery wrote: ↑June 14th, 2021, 11:54 pm
Do we agree that rejection is the proper action if the woman does not want the man?
Of course it is "proper" for a woman to reject a man she does not want. This is not in dispute, and never has been (in this discussion).
Pattern-chaser wrote: ↑June 14th, 2021, 12:16 pm
Something in the man triggers hate toward women. Do you disagree with this?
mystery wrote: ↑June 14th, 2021, 11:54 pm
no, I do not agree, the rejection is in the path.
If we remove the reject, the path will flow differently.
If we remove the misogyny, the path will flow differently.
If we remove the man, the path will flow differently.
If we remove the woman, the path will flow differently.
If we substitute the man for another man who is not a misogynist, the path will flow differently.
And so on.
- Rejection of a man is sometimes followed by a misogynistic response, but only if the man is a misogynist
- Other social events (unaccompanied by rejection) are sometimes followed by a misogynistic response, but only if the man is a misogynist.
- The rejection of a man is never followed by a misogynistic response if the man is not a misogynist.
- Misogynistic behaviour never occurs - despite the presence of rejection, or some other triggering event - unless the man in question is a misogynist.
Rejection is
not sufficient to give rise to misogynistic behaviour. It occurs only when the man is a misogynist. Rejection
often happens, but a misogynistic response to it does not, except when the man is a misogynist. It is misogyny, not rejection, that is the common factor.
This topic looks for a cause of misogyny (
not a cause of, or trigger for, misogynistic behaviour). Your focus is fixed on rejection, which might trigger misogynistic
behaviour in a misogynist, but is not a cause of misogyny itself.
I suppose it's possible that continued rejection might lead, in time, to the emergence of misogyny. I don't know that this is true, but I don't know that it isn't, either. The point here is that, if misogyny
does emerge for this reason, it is because the man's
response to rejection is
aberrant, and I offer empirical, repeatable, testable evidence to back this up: rejection does not lead to misogyny or to misogynistic behaviour in the vast majority of men.