Misandry VS Misogyny VS Misanthropy

[Lifestyle66]

Misandrist: A woman or man who hates or is prejudiced against men.
Misogynist: A woman or man who hates or is prejudiced against women. This is a different term, as it describes hating women, not men.
Misanthrope: A person who dislikes or hates all people in general.

Add two more detectives to your story, a non-binary CIS female and a non-binary CIS male.

I was thinking of something similar with the need for new words.
What do we call a person who hates a man who used to be a woman?
What do we call a person who hates a woman who used to be a man?
What do we call a person who hates a man who identifies as a woman?
What do we call a person who hates a person who identifies as a cat?

It gets so confusing!

I think I'll just stick to calling them all "haters".

EDIT:
From the movie "Dirty Harry" Detective De Georgio says about his partner:
"Ah that's one thing about our Harry, doesn't play any favorites! Harry hates everybody: Limeys, Micks, Hebes, Fat Dagos, Niggers, Honkies, Chinks, you name it."

 

[MillieDynamite]

You know the song, You Should Be Dancing, for me it goes, You Should Be Writing, so I think I'm cutting out on all of you for now and going to try to write.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Some TV characters are described as misanthropic - Basil Fawlty from the classic 1970s UK sitcom 'Fawlty Towers' is one example, Victor Meldrew from 1990s UK sitcom 'One Foot In The Grave' another. An American example would be the fictionalized version of Larry David from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'.

It is true that all of these characters have problems getting along with people in general. Basil Fawlty is an awful hotel manager thanks to his short temper and poor people skills, Victor Meldrew a grumpy old man, and Larry David's terrible social skills cause him no end of trouble. But none of them you would say hate people in general.

I absolutely would say that about Basil, at least.

All three are married,

Basil's marriage is miserable. He and Sibyl hold one another in contempt; he calls her things like "rancorous, coiffured old sow" to her face. There are occasional flickers of affection and hints that they used to be genuinely in love, occasionally one or the other of them tries to reach out, but those attempts don't come close to overcoming their resentment of one another.

"Did you ever see that film, How to Murder Your Wife? ... Awfully good. I saw it six times." - Basil Fawlty.

are shown to have friends and Basil in particular likes certain types of people - members of the upper class, professions such as doctors (excluding psychiatrists) and pretty girls - and will fawn over them rather than be rude to them when they stay at his hotel.

He sucks up to high-status people because he hopes to improve his own social standing, but I never get the sense that he actually likes them. He'd drop them in a flash if he no longer thought they were useful to him, and we see that happen in "The Psychiatrist". Part of Basil's self-inflicted misery is his obsession with class, something that was a common theme for the Pythons.

And yes, he slobbers over an attractive young woman but being a horny dude isn't really the same thing as liking them. Plenty of PUA types obsess over having sex with hot women, without ever liking or respecting those women.

In CYE Larry David's more spectacular disasters usually come about when he is trying to be nice to people, especially children, rather than when he is being a grouch or too stubborn for his own good.

I haven't seen more than a few minutes of CYE so I don't have a good feel for his character, but "misanthropist" doesn't have to mean somebody who hates literally every human being on the planet; usually it refers to a general tendency.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Also, to be fair, misogyny is far more systemic and its scale is far above the scale of misandry in the world. Stop always looking at the US only.

That's the thing, and it probably varies by country and region. Folks think mysandry ain't nothing because men tend to have positions of power, or because of male priviledge. Things all men don't really have, or have excess of.

 

[nice90sguy]

People have an almost pathological desire to classify other people as in-group or out-group these days.

You have to be pretty fucked up to base your like or dislike of people on such a crude criterion as their sex.

 

[RetroFan]

It can actually be a lot of fun writing misanthropic characters, I've done so in several stories of mine.

One such character I enjoyed writing was Claude, the high school janitor from my Halloween story a few years ago 'Cindy's Close Encounter'. A grouchy, middle-aged African-American man he hates his job, his boss the principal, the teachers and especially the teenagers who attend the school, grumbling and complaining about anything and everything. Given the story is set in 1959 with very different social attitudes some students do give Claude a hard time because he is Black or play practical jokes on him to get a reaction, but Claude is a horrible bigot too and uses many sexist, racist and homophobic slurs as well as making disparaging references to disabled people.

For example he is made to supervise four unruly boys washing windows on Saturday morning detention and he refers to one of them who is Italian-American as a 'wop retard'. And when three cheerleaders - the main characters in the story - who are helping set up the gym for the Halloween dance ask for toilet paper to stock the girls' bathroom Claude mumbles and grumbles and complains the whole time, saying that he fills the girls' bathrooms with toilet paper and they use all that, then he replaces it and they use all that too, and so on. He also complains at length that he has to empty used period pads out of the sanitary bins and burn them in the furnace, and then goes on a rant about how the boys pee all over the floor in their bathrooms and he has to mop it up. As Cindy the narrator of the story notes, isn't the toilet paper put in the girls' room to be used, they can't help menstruating one week in each month and they have zero control over how much the boys pee all over the floor in their bathrooms. And of course later in the story, Claude is anything but happy when one of the girls is violently sick in a hallway and he has to clean it up.

Have you ever written misanthropic characters and what was your experience of this?

 

[Kelliezgirl]

That's the thing, and it probably varies by country and region. Folks think mysandry ain't nothing because men tend to have positions of power, or because of male priviledge. Things all men don't really have, or have excess of.

Like a female manager claiming misandry doesn't exist because she's always really nice to the boys in the office.

 

[MillieDynamite]

Whether they want her to be nice to them or not!

Like a female manager claiming misandry doesn't exist because she's always really nice to the boys in the office.

 

[Britva415]

Whether they want her to be nice to them or not!

HOW nice!?

 

[MillieDynamite]

As in she's a bit overly nice.

HOW nice!?

 

[Britva415]

As in she's a bit overly nice.

You know what... I CAN see how that would be unwanted.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

You know what... I CAN see how that would be unwanted.

 

[Zootonius]

I'll just add, I've often considered using the nom de plume, Ms Ann Throp.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

Like a female manager claiming misandry doesn't exist because she's always really nice to the boys in the office.

Or because "they can handle it".

 

[nice90sguy]

I'll just add, I've often considered using the nom de plume, Ms Ann Throp.

Great dominatrix name