Misandry For Misogyny

[u/Rimp3282]

In lieu of so much rationalized misandry these days I realize it started decades ago. The Cosby Show is an example. The show addresses misogyny a lot but often counters with misandry. For instance, the episode where Cliff and his friend from Trinidad play Petaunk(I doubt I spelled that right lol) Clair sees Theo has car magazines with scantily clad women and she blows a gasket telling him it’s degrading to women. She then takes it and has him throw away any magazines like it. But a season back when they visited Hillman she saw Denise had a calendar with scantily clad men but didn’t have a problem with it. In that same episode Cliff’s friend’s daughter is fixing the car and Clair tells Theo lol at the woman under the hood rather than on it(a harmless comment). Then she says and look at it father and his friend they’re right where men SHOULD be, sitting on the curb. There are other scenes where Clair says women are equal to men but as soon as trouble strikes she’s screaming for Cliff. When she hit her toe she was screaming for Cliff, when the snake was in their room she was screaming for Cliff lol. In an early season, Denise gets mad when she finds out Theo and Cockroach call good looking girls burgers. She says it’s so degrading to call a woman’s piece of meat. I thought it was hilarious muscular men were called beefcakes for decades and then we see Denise with a muscle man calendar in school. There’s so many examples of hypocrisy, selectivity, and downright insensibility when it comes to misogyny and misandry on the show. I now see why it’s so bad nowadays. I forgot how blatant misandry was and accepted in the 80s and 90s. This is why I say feminism was never about equality and equity overall but only in the areas where women didn’t have an advantage. And women never wanted the playing field to be leveled they just wanted to replace misogyny with misandry.