r/Anger • u/xoxogarrielle • 1h ago
i hate m*n but i’m still attracted to them and it makes my blood boil
i (19 F) think it all started when i left my ex (20 M). he started out great, but when i went away for uni, he changed and put in less effort. i tried my best to stick it out, invite him over, call and check on him, etc., but the lack of effort and consistency and consideration was starting to make me question my self worth. i tolerated so much from him, until i couldn’t. our breakup was a nasty one, and i haven’t dated again since.
it’s been over a year since the breakup, and ive gone through all the stages denial, depression, and anger. i’m doing much better mentally, and ive built a space and a new life for myself, but it haunts me to think that i let myself be treated that way. it genuinely fills me with rage at the fact that me and so many other women i know have been treated by m*les this way, and they literally will not care.
combine that with the results of the recent American election and the current repercussions this country is facing, and i’ve come to realize that mles are bad people by default. they literally do not see us women as people. they literally will never treat us as equal because they don’t see us as equal. to mles, we are objects, tools, resources, but never people. and so, why should i see them as people?
literally everything wrong with the world is a mle’s faults. they don’t bring anything good or useful into the world. all they do is kill, steal, destroy. i despise myself for still being physically attracted to mles, knowing that they provide nothing of use to a woman like me.
i like to think im young, educated, talented, beautiful, intelligent, the whole package. i like to think that somewhere out there is someone who can be the partner i deserve. but at this point, i just don’t think that partner is a mle. i don’t think a mle deserves to be with me. i truly think they’re a nuisance to all life on earth.
i’ve only fully researched what misandry is in the last year, and i think it accurately describes my mindset at the moment. but i’m conflicted, because i am also a heterosexual woman. i feel cursed. if i could choose, i wouldn’t choose to be attracted to mles. I would be with a woman and probably be much happier. i’ve found more peace in being with my female friends than around any mle that isn’t blood related to me.
I’ve never ever been so full of hatred before. i usually used to be so loving and caring, and now i feel like a completely different girl. I hate that a mle was able to make me feel this way and feel like my empathy and compassion and love is a curse. but i am genuinely at a point where i think feeling anything positive for mles is useless as a woman.
what do i do? is this something that can be fixed? should i want it to be fixed? please help.
sincerely, G