Mizoandria. Wokół eseju Pauline Harmange Moi les hommes, je les déteste
Misandry. Around Pauline Harmange’s Essay I Hate Men

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the present article is Pauline Harmange’s infamous essay, I Hate Men (2020). The author starts by discussing the uproar it caused on the political scene and then seeks to situate the work on the French map of feminist and anti-feminist movements since the 1970s, asking about the place from which the young essayist speaks. She considers the central issue to be the misandrist discourse Harmange has activated, and around it she (re)construct a spectrum of issues that, in her view, illuminate it. She traces the “archaeology” of the word ‘misandry,’ which is not anchored in the everyday reality, including the academic one. She explores its function by juxtaposing two contradictory perspectives: Harmange’s feminist one and the anti-feminist one, whose activists proclaim misogynist and sexist slogans. The symmetrical or asymmetrical approaches to misandry and misogyny are also arranged at these poles. Harmange, while cultivating misandrist attitudes among women, consistently enumerates the benefits they should derive from misandry.

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