People have asked them, and overwhelmingly women say that they do not hate men. I don't ever make assertions that I can't back up - ever, ever, ever - and this is one of my primary fields of study.
An international study of 10K people from around the world is a good representative sample of what most women feel and think.
In the most extensive study of its kind, an international team of researchers led by Dr Aífe Hopkins-Doyle from the University of Surrey engaged nearly 10,000 participants to investigate the accuracy of the stereotype that feminists harbour negative attitudes towards men. Feminism is defined as a movement to end sexism, sexist exploitation, and oppression and to achieve gender equality in law and practice.
To learn more about feminists’ attitudes towards men, researchers conducted five individual studies with 9,799 participants across nine countries, and a meta-analysis of all data. Following in depth surveys, researchers found that feminists in Italy, Poland, the US, and the UK have largely positive attitudes toward men, which are much higher than neutral or baseline values, and do not differ from non-feminists. Researchers also extended their investigation to women and men in China (mainland China, Hong Kong and Macau), India, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Again, no difference in attitudes between feminists and non-feminists were identified.
Surprisingly, researchers found participation and support for #MeToo was associated with anger about men’s mistreatment of women, but not with negative overall evaluations of men.
