Violence Against Men

It does not matter, according to ideas that American culture as a whole even now clings to, if violence is inflicted on a man by a man or woman or if it occurred in a context of self-defense or not.  Physically attacking men even in an open manner in front of witnesses is societally regarded, at least for a great deal of American history, as a lesser offense than attacking women, even if the women are physical aggressors and if the men being victimized did not even do anything to call for self-defense (of course, the moral issues with assault or battery would still apply even if a man "provokes" someone into wanting to strike them).  In fact, many people, some of them idiots who actually think themselves gender egalitarian, will directly defend this despite the inherent hypocrisy and stupidity of it because broad society has so far encouraged it and because there can be cultural advantages for fools to be irrational and hypocritical.

If someone has the right personality, be they a man or woman, they want to exploit societal biases against men for their own benefit even if they themselves are hurt in the process--and all stereotypes and hypocritical treatment of men or women hurts both genders in some way, though different examples would hurt either men or women more.  Despite almost everyone's insistence that they really do care about reason, truth, and fairness, the tendency is for people to make assumptions about other people based on their gender, race, size, age, or some other such factor without regard for the stupidity of making assumptions or the way that this inevitably leads to positive or negative beliefs/attitudes about people without any valid basis.

Why might various adults want to promote belief in stereotypes that are so easily refuted with reason alone, independent of all social experience (though social experience also contributes to another proof that gender stereotypes are false, that being that literally no man or woman would act differently from other men or women if there actually were gender-specific psychological traits)?  A certain kind of man hopes to feel better about his own insecurities or is motivated by sheer arrogance or sadism and realizes that it is societally permissible, as far as cultural norms and not truth or morality are concerned, to emotionally, physically, and sexually abuse men because men supposedly "do not care," "deserve it," "cannot be abused," and so on.  He can oppress other men to make himself feel better about himself while pretending like social approval or apathy means this must be fine.

A certain kind of woman hopes to also make herself feel better by oppressing men, liking the idea that she can physically or sexually abuse men, even if it is only as relatively mild as a single public blow that goes unopposed, without having almost anyone push back against this behavior.  Like the kind of man described above, she is selfish, hypocritical, sexist, and driven by assumptions or the petty desire to do whatever it takes to emotionalistically satisfy herself.  Also like this kind of man, she recognizes that there will be a fairly small amount of public opposition if she targets men, hoping either to make them feel guilty about defending themselves or punishing her or to frighten them into just accepting arbitrary violence against them because society will likely not care as much as it would if he was a woman.

Regardless of their gender, a person must believe in the fallacies of egoism and sexism in order to have this worldview and lifestyle, or at the very least they must ignore any obvious philosophical flaws with this for the sake of making themselves feel more content to not change anything about themselves.  Since the men and women who exploit this erroneous stereotype that men deserve or can "take" violence are stupid and likely trying to make themselves feel powerful by fitting into Western culture, not only is confronting and refuting them necessary, of course, but it is also helpful to mock and belittle them whenever there is a chance to slip the verbal or emotional knife in their back without actually doing/saying anything unjust in the process.  There is no malice, pettiness, or hypocrisy in this alone.  If they are cruel to anyone because of their gender, man or woman, they do not deserve to not be hated, ostracized, and made to feel pathetically irrational to the point of voluntarily retreating from social interactions in insecurity.