"Yes, she wanted to say, the whole world goes the same way. There is a word for hatred of all people: misanthrophy. There is a word for hatred of women: misogyny. But there is no word for hatred of men, males. Apparently such a thing is inconceivable. Oh, there was a war all right, but it wasn't women who declared it, it was men thousands of years ago. They declared women invalid and built that illegitimacy into the laws, into the very dreams of human race. That division lies curled deeply at the very root of our whole power-hungry, industrial, nature-crushing, ambitious, structured, patriarchal, hierarchical world. But when women started to fight back, men threw up their hands in horror and screamed in hate and fear about man-hating women! Yes!
[...] So that men who don't go as far as others in their misogyny, men who are willing to admit that perhaps women can do "men's" jobs, can think, can act, men who are willing to admit that perhaps men haven't been entirely fair to women over the ages, men like that feel virtuous and pure and large and generous and expect women to fall all over with them with gratitude. Yes."
- The bleeding heart, Marilyn French
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