August 2024
A rating system to identify “toxic male” social medial channels has been put forth by various feminist and liberal groups, to identify and cancel these channels. The scale was developed by a doctoral student whose name and university I will not mention. It’s not about her, so please don’t go bother her. It’s about the misandrist system that enthusiastically embraced this scale and now pushes it.
Is the scale valid? That is the real question. No, it is not. It is chock full of fallacies and outright opinions. It starts with a set of biases against men, makes assertions that are false, and uses these assertions to prove “male supremacy.”
What is male supremacy? In feminist ideology it is pretty much any male trait, real or imagined, that can be used to push a narrative of men being bad and oppressing women. It is a buzzword that a can be morphed into anything to shut down words or actions from men, irrespective of whether these are illegal, immoral or even … toxic. Oxford dictionary defines supremacy is:
The state or condition of being superior to all others in authority, power, or status.
Let’s examine the criteria on this scale with respect to these three dynamics: authority, power, and status.
Male Supremacy Scale
- 15 items total
- 3 subscales – Anti-Feminism (AF), Female Dishonesty (FD), Women Like Alphas (WLA)
- 7-point Likert scale: Strongly disagree, Disagree, Somewhat disagree, Neither agree nor disagree, Somewhat agree, Agree, Strongly Agree
Anti-Feminism
- Feminism is about hating men
- Modern society prioritizes women over men
- Feminists are unattractive
- Women use feminism to gain unfair advantage over men
- Feminists are seeking to control men
Female Dishonesty
- If a man commits to a woman in a romantic relationship, she gets the upper hand
- In a relationship, women are less trustworthy than men
- Men in romantic relationships need to be constantly on guard for cheating
- Women have a biological drive to cheat on their partners
- You can’t trust women to be faithful in relationships
Women Like Alphas
- Women are biologically driven to seek out the highest status man possible
- Women cannot help but being attracted to rich men
- Women cannot help but be attracted to men who are in higher status than they are
- Women are not attracted to men who have a low social status
- Women are attracted to high status men
Anti-Feminism
Let’s start with Anti-Feminism. None of these five criteria are about raising male status, power and authority. They are about stopping men from questioning whether women are raising their own status, power and authority at the expense of men. How can a man questioning these things be displaying supremacy? It’s simply wanting equality, something feminists speak about very loudly at every opportunity.
1. Feminism is about hating men. Even if all men believed this, it is not about supremacy. It also begs the question why men might feel this. No attempt at all is made to examine what actions might have led to such a belief. There is actually quite a bit of justification for men feeling this way. Just google “Kill All Men” and you will find scores of feminists loudly proclaiming this, along with their enablers in the government and media saying it’s just a joke or some other lame excuse. Very few fellow women are condemning it. I haven’t seen one feminist condemning this call for extreme violence towards men. Most cheer it on. Telling a certain group you want them dead is surely a strong sign of hatred. It is not about supremacy for a man to think this. It is about self-defense.
How about these recent headlines?
But why take my word for it? Instead, listen to the words of a staunch feminist. Dr. Suzanne Danuta Walters, Professor of Sociology and Professor and Director of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. She penned an opinion piece for the Washington Post, entitled Why Can’t We Hate Men? She states in her article, that “it seems logical to hate men.” She also states that she has “rankled at the ‘but we don’t hate men’ protestations of generations of would-be feminists.” In her conclusion, she states, “We have every right to hate you. You have done us wrong. #BecausePatriarchy. It is long past time to play hard for Team Feminism. And win.” So there you have it, from the words of one of your own feminist leaders and scholars. Feminism is about hating men. You are declaring a man a male supremist for believing what feminists themselves have said. This makes no sense at all.
2. Modern society prioritizes women over men. Once again, how does this view raise the authority, power and status of men? Furthermore, statistical data makes a very good case that society does actually prioritize women over men, thereby raising their authority, power and status instead. Who gets the majority of the assets in divorces? Women. Who is almost guaranteed to get the children in a divorce? Women. Whose accusations are believed without evidence? Women. Who has received priority admission to universities? Women. Who has received priority treatment in the corporate world? Women. Who is fired from their job whenever there is an issue between a man and a woman? Not women. Who serves longer prison sentences for the same crimes? Not women. For whom is failure to pay child support a crime? Not women. Who has to sign up for military service? Not women. Who has by far the highest work place fatality rates? Not women. These are just a few examples of how society prioritizes women over men. This criterion is actually an attempt to muzzle men who take issue with this prioritization of women.
3. Feminists are unattractive. Are you seriously trying to say that attractiveness is mandated, rather than a personal preference? What about women who are not attracted to short men? Fat men? Bald men? Poor men? Are they female supremacists? Also, why do strong, independent women even care about whether men find them attractive? Isn’t that objectifying women? Once again, this has nothing to do with supremacy. Only women wanting validation and trying to shame men into giving it to them without having to make an effort to actually be attractive.
4. Women use feminism to gain unfair advantage over men. This criterion is so similar to #2 that answering yes one automatically means yes on the other. This is bad data gathering. More on that later. See all the above comments, especially about divorce, about the unfair advantage women enjoy over men. Again, how does this criterion indicate supremacy? In fact, it indicates men try to defend against female supremacy.
5. Feminists are seeking to control men. Again, how does this indicate supremacy? It is an attempt to defend against supremacy. A strong argument can be made from just these first few criteria that feminists are seeking to control men. Trying to dictate who a man does or does not find attractive is certainly an attempt to control him.
Again I point you to the words of feminist Dr. Suzanne Danuta Walters, whose article I referenced in #1 above. She states, “So men, if you really are #WithUs and would like us to not hate you for all the millennia of woe you have produced and benefited from, start with this: Lean out so we can actually stand up without being beaten down. Pledge to vote for feminist women only. Don’t run for office. Don’t be in charge of anything. Step away from power. We got this.” If that doesn’t sound like trying to control men, I don’t know what does. Once again, you call men male supremacists for believing something a feminist leader and scholar has clearly stated.
Female Dishonesty
The next category is Female Dishonesty. The five criteria, once again, have nothing to do with any push for power, authority or status. Whether true or false, they are opinions, nothing more. Some even have data indicating they are truth.
6. If a man commits to a woman in a romantic relationship, she gets the upper hand. This criterion is also very similar to #2 and #4 above. Answering yes here, means yes for those two as well. Not exactly a unique range of criteria upon which a good survey depends. There are a lot of facts that indicate this statement is true. Just look at divorce statistics. The majority of divorces are initiated by women, and women get the majority of the man’s assets. It almost never works the other way around. There are even instances of cohabitation without marriage where feckless judges award a man’s assets to the woman. Again, this criterion is simply men trying to guard themselves. This is not supremacy. Men are not trying to get an upper hand, just keep from being disadvantaged.
7. In a relationship, women are less trustworthy than men. Reliable cheating statistics do not exist. They are all over the board. Let’s look at divorce rates, for which there are hard numbers. Between 70-80% of divorces are initiated by women. That’s some pretty good data that it is a risk to trust a woman to remain in marriage. Of course, feminists will obfuscate this with allegations of abuse. When a man abuses a woman, he belongs in jail … but false accusations of abuse against the man are boilerplate now in all divorces. Also, women believe emotional abuse is a man saying “no” to them, and financial abuse is the man not letting her spend all his money. I can see where this criterion has a bit of validity with respect to supremacy, by gaining status from painting the other person as untrustworthy. However, data indicates that there is a good cause for men not trusting women.
8. Men in romantic relationships need to be constantly on guard for cheating. This question is almost identical to #7. Answering yes to one, means yes to both. Poor data integrity. There is no statistical data to verify this, because it is all over the board … depending upon whether it comes from a feminist source trying to paint men as cheaters, or a men’s rights source trying to paint women as cheaters. This criterion also has nothing to do with supremacy. Cheating or lack thereof does not confer power, authority or status.
9. Women have a biological drive to cheat on their partners. Almost identical to criterion #8 and very similar to criterion #7. Three yes answers for the price of one. Zero data integrity. I won’t address whether this is true or not. Once again, different sources say different things depending upon their ideologies. Nothing to do with supremacy here. Cheating or lack thereof does not confer power, authority of status.
10. You can’t trust women to be faithful in relationships. Identical to #8 and #9 above and very similar to #7. Now we are up to four selected criteria for the price of one, guaranteeing a substantial bump up on the male supremacy scale for what is really just one criterion. This is not an indicator of supremacy, for the same reasons given in #8 and #9 above.
Women Like Alphas
The next category is Women Like Alphas, with alpha meaning a high value man in terms of status, physical attractiveness, wealth, power, and bedroom prowess. The five criteria in this category are almost identical. Answering yes on one guarantees five affirmative answers.
11. Women are biologically driven to seek out the highest status man possible. Dating app statistics indicate that women overwhelmingly select within the top 10% of men with the above alpha traits. So much so, that the bottom 90% are effectively invisible. The converse is not true for men, whose selections are much more evenly distributed. I don’t know whether this is biological, but does it really matter? It is a fact that it happens. This criterion has nothing to do with male supremacy, especially for the 90% of men who are invisible to women. Pointing this out is simply a truth that many women would prefer remain hidden.
12. Women cannot help but being attracted to rich men. See #11 above. Almost all women seek men who earn more money than them. Almost no men care how much money a woman earns as long as she is beautiful and nice. Whether women can help it or not isn’t the issue. It is a statistical fact. Once again, nothing to do with supremacy. Simply another fact women prefer remains hidden.
Criteria 13-15 are almost the same word for word, and identical in nature to #11 and #12.
- Women cannot help but be attracted to men who are in higher status than they are
- Women are not attracted to men who have a low social status
- Women are attracted to high status men
None are supremist criteria for the same reasons as #11 and #12 above.
Fallacies
Non-Discrete Data
Trying to portray vague criteria as discrete data. Discrete data consists of distinct, separate values that are countable and finite. Assigning numerical values to opinions. While on the surface it attempts to look like continuous data, with options in a finite range. The criteria only offer a black and white, binary choice, with it left up to the individual to fill in the gaps. This is highly susceptible to bias.
Similar Questions
Two criteria in the first category are similar to a criterion in the second category. Four criteria in the second category are similar to each other. All five questions in the third category are similar to each other. Answering three criteria with a yes, instantly gives you ten criteria with a yes. That’s 2/3 of the scale and an automatic high score. Talk about a biased survey.
Appeal to Popular Opinion (Argumentum ad Populum)
Many of these criterion appeal to the popular opinion of feminists and their allies. They are not grounded in statistical data. In fact, statistical data suggests that many of these criteria they are trying to portray as supremist falsehoods are actually true. Moreover, none of the criteria except one have anything to do with supremacy … and that one applies more to women than men. It is highly likely that the people applying this scale to others will be adherents to the feminist ideology, so their opinion will be swayed towards answering in such a manner as making men look bad.
Begging the Question (Pepito Principii)
Survey responses are worded in such a way as to treat arguable propositions as facts.Example: If a man commits to a woman in a romantic relationship, she gets the upper hand
Since answering yes equals male supremacy, it begs the question that this is a false statement, although there is considerable evidence the statement is true.
Same with this …
Modern society prioritizes women over men
Loaded Criteria
Take the criterion feminism is about hating men. This is emotionally loaded language with a high likelihood of swaying the person answering in a strong direction. How about some other options on a scale? Frustrated with men? Annoyed with men? Disagrees with men? Wants something different from men? Supporting men? It offers nothing except this one loaded option. Indeed, there is a lot of loaded language in the criteria, designed to elicit an emotional response and possibly skew the results. Words such as: : Alphas, feminism, feminist, faithful, romantic relationship, high status, low social status.
Strawman
This is worse than pseudo-science. It is a biased strawman masquerading as science. Wording creates a straw man of negative views of men with respect to feminism. It is not neutral, but very much skewed towards portraying men as negative. This creates a straw man to easily “validate” a high supremacy level. The arguments are set up so that men’s responses can be easily knocked down and declared “supremist.” These criteria either do not exist, or are not supremist if they do.
Survey Formatting
Formatted to skew towards answers that validate feminist views. No scale with an opposing view on the other side. Using the Likert scale here is quite vague, especially since all the question are stated in a manner negative towards men. A fairer formatting would be something like this. It frames the answers, instead of letting the survey taker fill in the blanks based on their own biases.
To what extent does the platform or person portray feminism as hating men?1 – Not at all
2 – Rarely
3 – Has some issues with men
4 – Disliking some men or some things men do
5 – Disliking many men or many things men do
6- Often hating men
7- Consistently hating men
Highly Manipulative
This scale is manipulative projection and shaming. It projects exactly what women are trying to do to men, then accuses men of doing it in order to shame the women.
Conflicting “Scholarship”
Did the author of this scale and its reviewers even examine feminist doctrine prior to writing/publishing it? Several of the the criteria judging men for believing them are direct statements from feminist leaders and scholars. One feminist states that men believing feminists hate them is misogynistic and supremacist. The next feminist exhorts all her sisters to hate men. Come on, ladies Get your doctrine, or should I say dogma, on the same page. You cannot declare someone contrary to your ideology for believing something one of your own leaders has declared, and the rest of you approved. Indeed this entire scale is contradictory in nature.
Why?
Why does this male supremacy scale have 11 out of 15 criteria dealing with men’s opinions of relationships with a woman? Western women have made it very clear that they don’t need men and that men’s opinions of them do not matter. So why make 73% of this scale about men wanting or not wanting women? It looks like someone wants validation from men and is angry that men are not giving it, so those men must be punished. Feminist academia gives it their stamp of approval because it supports their ideology, not the scientific method.
Concluding Thoughts
It appears as though this scale is nothing more than a façade to assign “supremist” values to criteria that are simply truthful facts and have nothing to do with supremacist traits of power, authority or status. These truths run counter to the feminist ideology and agenda. Assigning “supremacist” values to any people expressing these truths, is an attempt to censor and silence them … while hiding under the umbrella of academia.