“What if women have good reasons to detest men? What if anger towards men is in fact a joyful and emancipating path when it is allowed to express itself?” Harmange writes. The book says defending misandry is liberating and can create space for sorority and sisterhood. I realise this sounds like a violent sentiment, but I feel strongly we should be allowed to not love them as a whole and make exceptions for certain men.” She added: “If we are heterosexual we are encouraged to like men, but we should absolutely have the right not to like them. I can state for a fact that the majority of aggressors are men.” This comes less from personal experience than from being an activist in a feminist organisation that helps the victims of rape and sexual assault for several years. But in general I mistrust men I don’t know,” Harmange said. “I am married to a man, who is great and really supports my writing. The 96-page essay opens with a quote from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar – “The trouble was, I hated the idea of serving men in any way” – and it explores whether women have good reason to hate men. Moi les hommes, je les déteste, by Pauline Harmange.
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