Grryl,

What you say is true....but I'm not sure it's particularly meaningful or relevant.

People, it seems, DO like to categorize and disparage (sometimes jokingly). "Dumb blonde jokes" are a good example of disparagement that is NOT really taken seriously--and is, yes, just a joke. Of course, the joke may not be HILARIOUS if you happen to be blonde, that's true (which, apparently, doesn't stop many women from CHANGING their hair color to blonde).

To be honest, fair, and accurate, these things need to be taken in their broadest context--which "zealous" people uniformly FAIL to do; a failure which more or less defines zealotry.

For example, there was certainly a time in the US when a white person could say Black people were "stupid," and it would be HATEFUL....simply because there was the INTENTION to hate behind the statement. The very same white person, at the very same time, could remark that "Pollacks" were stupid (Poles, people of Polish origin), and mean it purely as a joke: their best friend might be Polish, they would be happy to have their SISTER marry someone Polish, and they would hire or rent to any Pole who seemed qualified.

I do not ADVOCATE for people to categorize and disparage. But the fact is it is done for ALL motivations, from affectionate to poisonously evil. However...

There are those (like some feminists), who broker their hatred BY artificially and unlaterally declaring certain language as hateful. Kuruman and I have discussed and given many examples of the phenomenon of a certain feminist ideology whose followers seem (for lack of any other explanation) to have as their intention to DEMONIZE men generally, and in fact to try to belittle and degrade them into, yes, I suppose, the same conditions they imagine women were in fifty years ago.

Unfortunately, far too few women--even women honest and of goodwill--are willing to admit to the existence of a vitriolic anti-male bias among many women.

I'm most interested in people's actions (or what can truly be surmised about their intentions, perhaps). The simple fact is that I (as a man) am aware of no pervasive, intentional motivation among men to treat women badly as a group. Although, I notice (and I'm also afraid that many don't) that there is building a GOOD DEAL of resentment between the genders--that has not existed until recently in history.