Experiment "Women who hate men: a comparative analysis across extremist Reddit communities" - Bombshell Study!

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Women who hate men: a comparative analysis across extremist Reddit communities - Scientific Reports

In the present online social landscape, while misogyny is a well-established issue, misandry remains significantly underexplored. In an effort to rectify this discrepancy and better understand the phenomenon of gendered hate speech, we analyze four openly declared misogynistic and misandric...

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An April 2025 study, "Women who hate men: a comparative analysis across extremist Reddit communities" challenges the narrative that misandry is insignificant or nonexistent by analyzing gendered hate speech in four Reddit communities: (r/)Incels & (r/)MensRights (misogynistic) and (r/)Feminism & (r/)GenderCritical (misandric).

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“Although misogyny has been widely studied in social computing, misandry remains significantly underexplored. Our study identifies misandric communities that exhibit stronger levels of hate and negative sentiment than even misogynistic ones.”

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Key Findings on Misandry

Misandry is real and measurable: Defined as "hatred, dislike, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys," misandry was evident in (r/)Feminism & (r/)GenderCritical. Both communities showed a "consistent peak towards hate" in general text analysis, comparable to misogynistic communities.

Intense user level hate: Individual users in misandric communities, particularly (r/)Feminism, expressed more negative sentiments than those in misogynistic communities, with (r/)Feminism showing a magnified hate peak. This empirical evidence refutes claims that misandry is not a significant issue.

Validating men’s experiences: The study’s identification of misandric communities with intense user level hate validates men’s experiences of prejudice, countering societal dismissal and gaslighting. Misandry’s under acknowledgment in research mirrors this broader trend.

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Takeaways & Implications
Unaddressed misandry fosters a climate of gendered animosity, eroding empathy and compassion. The study advocates for gender-neutral interventions to combat all forms of hate speech, as normalizing hate against any group, including men, harms everyone. Recognizing misandry is essential for creating safer, more empathetic online and offline spaces.

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A closer look at (r/)MensRights:

While (r/)MensRights is categorized as “misogynistic,” the data shows nuance:

• It did not exhibit the highest toxicity - that was (r/)Incels.
• In user level emotional analysis, it did not show the same intensity of hate as the misandric communities. While general text level hate was present, individual user sentiment was less extreme.

This suggests that within the extremist label, (r/)MensRights may be comparatively less intense in its emotional tone than others on both sides of the spectrum.

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** Study Limitations** This computational linguistics study analyzes Reddit post sentiment, not real world behavior. Context, sarcasm and irony may not always be perfectly captured, but the trends remain compelling.

We conducted our analysis on the following four Reddit extremist communities:

• Feminism: r/Feminism is a feminist political subreddit discussing women’s issues. It has 277,000 users and more than 50% of the posts have been assessed to exhibit a predominantly negative sentiment46.
• GenderCritical: The subreddit r/GenderCritical had 64,400 users and self-described as “reddit’s most active feminist community” for “women-centred, radical feminists” to discuss “gender from a gender-critical perspective”. In 2020, the subreddit was banned for violating Reddit’s rule against promoting hate and transphobia.
• Incels: r/Incels was a forum wherein members discussed their lack of partnering success. Many members adhered to the “black pill” ideology, which espoused despondency often coupled with misogynistic views. The subreddit was banned in 2017, and at that time it counted 40,000 subscribers.
• MensRights: Created in 2008, the “antifeminist” subreddit r/MensRights has over 300,000 members as of April 2021. It has been recognized as one of “the most striking features of the new antifeminist politics”47.

Toxicity​

Figure 4

Distribution of the content toxicity of each subreddit. The X-axis represents the toxicity score, while the Y-axis represents the distribution density.

Figure 5

Prevalent emotions detected in each subreddit either at text-level (a) and user-level (b). Circumferences represent different percentages.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81567-9/figures/5

Under this optic, indeed, misandric communities express more negative sentiments than misogynistic ones.

 

[tacel]

Good to see something we all know in a study. Remember, they hate us more than we hate them even though they've been given the world and we bear it on our shoulders.
Incels have the least anger and hate, the most sadness.

 

[CosmicInjustice]

Doesn’t matter. Foids will just say that misandry is justified because we live in a patriarchy and because men are innately evil. There’s just no way to argue against emotion.

 

[Antorian]

Should be put on the "Must Read" forum, as its scientific proof of the blackpill

 

[theanty]

There’s just no way to argue against emotion.

 

[Pancakecel]

It's amazing that subreddit hasn't been banned, I know a lot of subsoyddits have a rule where if they see you're subbed to mensrights, you are immediately banned from posting on theirs jfl.

 

[Grodd]

It's amazing that subreddit hasn't been banned, I know a lot of subsoyddits have a rule where if they see you're subbed to mensrights, you are immediately banned from posting on theirs jfl.

 

[Grodd]

Misandry is socially acceptable in this gynocentric society

 

[VλREN]

Good to see something we all know in a study. Remember, they hate us more than we hate them even though they've been given the world and we bear it on our shoulders.
Incels have the least anger and hate, the most sadness.

Based GrAY

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

You forgot the best part.

Despite no significant differences can be observed regarding GenderCritical and Incels (which remain mainly skewed toward fear and sadness, respectively),

It's not just that r/incels was less hateful than the others, but they were the saddest subreddit of the four. "Incels are hateful monsters" narrative completely destroyed as a cherry on top of the "feminists aren't hateful" one being so as well. Makes me wonder how long this study will be out before feminists attack it.

 

[SmhChan]

You forgot the best part.



It's not just that r/incels was less hateful than the others, but they were the saddest subreddit of the four. "Incels are hateful monsters" narrative completely destroyed as a cherry on top of the "feminists aren't hateful" one being so as well. Makes me wonder how long this study will be out before feminists attack it.

Haven't gone through it. Is this really a legit study or is it sprinkled with justifications for the extreme misandry that exists on retardit?

 

[SmhChan]

Doesn’t matter. Foids will just say that misandry is justified because we live in a patriarchy and because men are innately evil. There’s just no way to argue against emotion.

That's the thing though, if men were truly evil towards foids, they would not be able to spew their misandry.

 

[WorthlessSlavicShit]

Haven't gone through it. Is this really a legit study or is it sprinkled with justifications for the extreme misandry that exists on retardit?

Legit study that doesn't really justify anything, I did my own breakdown of it here in case you're interested:

"Under this optic, indeed, misandric communities express more negative sentiments than misogynistic ones."

Interesting:feelswhere::feelsstudy::society:. View: https://www.reddit.com/r/MensRights/comments/1k7u4ag/women_who_hate_men_a_comparative_analysis_across/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-81567-9 So basically, we finally got an, as much as could be hoped for, unbiased study...

incels.is