Little Red Riding Hood Misandry

Misandry Vs. Feminism In today's society, we still have to fight for women's rights. It’s strange to think that in the twenty-first century that we have to fight for basic human rights. People do fight, some people take a wrong approach though. Feminism is supposed to be everyone has the same rights, so it isn’t biased to one gender. Misandry is seeing females as better than everyone else, primarily men. Even if radical feminism can be seen as irrational, they have an important viewpoint on women that is correct; women are still oppressed (A good paper to read more about this would be here). In ‘A Politically Correct Little Red Riding Hood’, the author points out that misandry is seen as being extremely politically correct; simply because

Even if it demonises men, people claim it’s being politically correct; and makes feminists not be taken seriously. Misandry is brought up in a passage from the text, “...take a basket of fresh fruit and mineral water to her grandmother- not because this was woman’s work…”. This passage most people wouldn’t question why Little Red is doing this, the author makes it a gender bias; even when it really isn’t. It’s brought up again, when Little Red gets angry at the woodchopper; he hears a scream and sees a wolf looking to attack her. Most people would react the same way, it doesn’t matter what gender the person is, and if you hear someone scream; you would go to help. Though, Little Red gets angry, attacking the woodsperson accusing him of having sexist views. “Sexist! Speciesist! How dare you assume that womyn and wolves can’t solve their own problems without a man’s help!” This is an element of satire, showing how irrational radical feminists are; she focuses on his gender instead of his actions. This action itself is ironic, considering misandrists claim to want the rights that men have and say women shouldn’t be seen as lesser, yet they see men as less because of their sex. Yet another example of misandry in this text, is the grandmother, once hearing Little Red’s “impassioned” speech; she jumps out of the wolves mouth and kills the woodsperson. This is referring to the bandwagoning culture, usually spread online. Bandwagoning is joining in on something, just because everyone else is doing it. Online, radical feminists attack those whom disagree with them, and create pages or posts to target these people. Usually the victims of this get mobbed, and end up deleting their accounts. A lot of the time, these people mean no harm, unless those feeding trolls. Those trolls are the ones who spread the main spread idea that all feminists are radfems, and attack