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Student @ Babcock University
The cost of misandry
<p style="text-align: justify;"> <em>We are living through a quiet but corrosive crisis—one that rarely makes headlines, yet steadily erodes trust and empathy: the rise of misandry. More and more, men are spoken of not as individuals with distinct values and choices, but as a monolithic threat, judged by the worst actions of a fraction of their gender.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Turn on the news, and the stories are relentless: rape, abuse, domestic violence, cruelty inflicted by men. The pain behind these stories is real, and the anger they provoke is understandable. Fear does not emerge in a vacuum—it is shaped by trauma, by lived experience, and by a media cycle that relentlessly amplifies the darkest acts. In that sense, the resentment many women feel is not born of malice, but of exhaustion and hurt.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Yet somewhere along the way, something vital is lost.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>When every man becomes suspect by default, when goodness must be proven rather than assumed, we begin to punish innocence alongside guilt. The existence of evil does not erase the quiet decency of fathers who protect, brothers who support, partners who love, and strangers who choose kindness when no one is watching. These men exist in overwhelming numbers, even if their stories are rarely told.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>Acknowledging this truth does not diminish the suffering of victims. It does not excuse violence or silence accountability. It simply insists on something deeply human: that we judge people by who they are, not by the crimes of others who share their gender.</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><br/></em></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>If we allow fear to turn into blanket condemnation, we risk replacing one injustice with another. Healing will not come from suspicion and division, but from honesty, empathy, and the courage to hold individuals accountable—without losing sight of the humanity in one another.</em></p>
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