Editing Misandry (section)

=== Use by the men's rights movement ===
[[Men's rights activist]]s (MRAs) invoke the idea of misandry in warning against what they see as the advance of a female-dominated society.<ref name="Masequesmay 2008">{{Multiref2 |{{cite book |last1=Masequesmay |first1=Gina |editor1-last=O′Brien |editor1-first=Jodi |title=Encyclopedia of Gender and Society, Volume 2 |date=2008 |publisher=SAGE Publications |location=Thousand Oaks, Calif. |isbn=978-1-4522-6602-2 |page=750 |chapter=Sexism |quote=Proponents for men's rights even conjure the notion of misandry or hatred of men as they fear a new world order or a return to matriarchy, a female-dominated society.}} |{{cite web |last1=Masequesmay |first1=Gina |title=Sexism {{!}} Sexism and the men's movement |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/sexism/Sexism-and-feminism#ref321547 |website=Encyclopaedia Britannica |access-date=22 February 2024 |date=11 June 2014 |archive-date=22 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240222071023/https://www.britannica.com/topic/sexism/Sexism-and-feminism#ref321547 |url-status=live}} }}</ref> The idea of feminism as threatening towards men, encapsulated in the term ''misandry'', forms a core part of the vocabulary of the [[manosphere]]{{sfnp|Marwick|Caplan|2018|page=544}} and is used within the men's rights movement (MRM) to counter feminist accusations of misogyny.{{r|Hodapp p4}} The idea of feminism as a misandrist movement has been cited as justification for harassment of people espousing feminist ideas, one example being the [[Gamergate (harassment campaign)|Gamergate]] harassment campaign against women in the video games industry.{{sfnp|Marwick|Caplan|2018|pages=544, 547}} 
MRAs and other [[masculinist]] groups have criticized modern laws concerning [[divorce]], [[domestic violence]], the draft, circumcision (known as ''genital mutilation'' by opponents), and treatment of [[male rape victims]] as examples of institutional misandry.{{r|Ouellette 2007}} Other proposed examples include social problems that lead to men's [[Life expectancy#Sex differences|shorter lifespans]], higher [[suicide]] rates, requirements to participate in [[Conscription|military drafts]], and lack of tax benefits afforded to widowers compared to widows.{{r|Ouellette 2007}}<ref name="Schmitz 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Schmitz |first1=Rachel |last2=Kazyak |first2=Emily |title=Masculinities in Cyberspace: An Analysis of Portrayals of Manhood in Men's Rights Activist Websites |journal=Social Sciences |date=2016 |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=18 |doi=10.3390/socsci5020018 |doi-access=free |issn=2076-0760}}</ref>

Marc A. Ouellette argues in ''International Encyclopedia of Men and Masculinities'' that "misandry lacks the systemic, transhistoric, institutionalized, and legislated antipathy of misogyny"; in his view, assuming a parallel between misogyny and misandry overly simplifies relations of gender and power.<ref name="Ouellette 2007"/>

Marwick and Caplan have examined the use of the term ''misandry'' within the manosphere as a weapon against feminist language and ideas.{{r|Sugiura p102}} They characterize men's rights activists' use of the term{{emdash}}as a gender-reversed counterpart to ''misogyny''{{emdash}}as an appropriation of leftist [[identity politics]].{{sfnp|Marwick|Caplan|2018|page=550}} Marwick and Caplan also argue that coverage of the discourse of misandry by mainstream journalists serves to reinforce the MRM's framing of feminist activism as oppressive toward men, along with its denial of institutionalized sexism against women.{{sfnp|Marwick|Caplan|2018|page=554}}