Why do I see so many questions that disrespect feminists and none that disrespect men's groups?

I think it's because of the level of the people asking the questions.

Someone asking questions to troll will of course ask more "questions" that are not legitimate but intended to insult others and provoke. And the trolls here ask questions out of proportion to their actual numbers. They want attention and they want to vent their anxiety and bitterness.

An open forum online where women gather is a target for men who have issues. The normal men and women here don't have a neurotic need to harass people from behind a screen. When you look at it that way I think the skewed nature of the questions here is understandable.

The reason why men's groups are not as popular is because men had a head start in human rights, women were lagging. Of course the group that had and sometimes still retain more privileges will have fewer protest/rights groups. That is common sense. And the reason why there are questions here that are so rude and trollish is because 1. The person is a troll or/and 2. An ignorant male thinking he's being funny/intelligent. I bet those trolls wouldn't say 99 percent of the things they type on the internet about women to a woman's face in real life.. the internet is where trolls breed, they come out at night full of false bravado knowing no one knows them. Until their mom happens to come across their web history and then they'll get it.

And looking at the number of thumbs down, you can guess it's the same trolls who create clones to give those thumbs down.. they sure do have a lot of time.

While I could not possibly hope to cover all the reasons why, I do have a few theories:

1. Most of these questions are asked either by teenage boys, or those with the equivalent maturity. They know that they can post items on here, and revel in the relative anonymity the site provides. They can state things on here that they would not dream of saying to anyone in the real world

2. The "Fun" factor - the knowledge that a few posters on here will predictably rise to the bait that is dangled in front of them

3. Most legitimate mens "groups" are about building individual self esteem and not about challenging individual perceptions. In other words they do not tell you that you are wrong for thinking a certain way.

4. The name of the forum "Gender and Women's Studies" places an undue emphasis on the rights of women over men. Simply by changing the name to Gender Studies we may see a more reasonable discourse from some.

The first answerer has it right ... men's groups such as? The fact is, there are very few public men's groups which are avowedly anti-feminist.

Mostly, they seem to prefer the internet, where they can be hateful with what they seem to believe is complete anonymity.

In real life, most of the men's groups, even those which are not 'pro-feminist' as such are active guys trying to do some good in the world through hard work, effort and being brave enough to throw off the insults of small minds such as those inhabited by misogynist trolls.

A great example is the White Ribbon Campaign, an international organisation began by a bunch of conservative businessmen to combat male violence.

These guys would probably have laughed to be thought of as 'feminist', and they certainly weren't 'lefties'.

What they were was a group of men who actually DID something to be the change they want to see in the world (to paraphrase another much respected man, Mr Ghandi).

Why would I, or any other feminist disrespect that? I admire people like that, whatever geneder they are.

The world needs more of them ~ MANY more.

Great question, thanks :-)

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Some men need to 'assert' their masculinity by surreptitiously posting answers using the pusillanimous expedient of anonymity that comes with the sanctuary of being a troll in any guise, other than that of an identifiable person, or a real man.

Public internet sites that have a focus on feminism often attract angry disruptive people (usually men but not always). It doesn't take more than a few people to bombard a web site with a constant stream of immature and disrespectful posts-once it starts-it can become a stream of angry bitter hateful posts. Some men need to silence women and this is one place they can vent their frustration and hatred towards women openly and get support from other men for their vile behavior.

If you want a few sophisticated reasons for feminist bashing and women bashing in general-this is a post by a men's movement leader-Glenn Sacks-who discusses why he thinks some of those in the men's movement bash women: http://www.glennsacks.com/confronting_women_bashin...

I think some of the angry people posting in GWS have these motives listed in the article above:

-They believe that for 30 years women have won at the expense of men and that men can only win now at the expense of women.

-They use personal experience (having children stolen in a divorce, being the victim of false accusations or of domestic violence, etc.) to justify anti-female bigotry

-They believe that feminism has caused all or most of men's and fathers' current problems.

It's unfortunate that these folks can't learn to refocus their anger and energy into something more productive-isn't it?

There aren't hardly any "men's groups" out there that anybody knows about. There are a number of feminist groups that most people know about.

Is this really that hard for people to understand? Go out on the street and ask somebody how many men's rights groups they know. Most of them will probably either look at you like you're crazy or will be dumbfounded that such a thing exists. Heck, I barely knew they existed before coming on here myself. I think it's kind of hard to disrespect something you don't know much about.

"Oh because women tend to be more respectful than men."

Why does a sexist remark like that get 9 thumbs up? If I said that and reversed the sexes, there's no way I'd come close to getting 9 thumbs up, and for good reason. Can somebody explain that one?

Well said and as for celtish he was annoying and me at one time. Obviously some people have too much time on their hands.

Men have been scrutinized by women for so long, that there really isn't any point in having women disrespect men's groups, although I'm sure many of them do in some other forum besides yahoo answers. Many women think we have it better than they do in every aspect of life, and that just isn't the case.

The women are here because they have legitimate concerns. Although there are legitimate concerns for men's rights, the men/boys who post here are not her for that reason. That is only an excuse to come here and write nasty things about feminists. They are seriously mentally disturbed, and as you can see they even attacked you. Most have more than one account so they will look like there are more crazy men in the world, and they also troll as women.