Donald Trump makes nasty, personal attacks against both men and women. Those he degrades he does by demeaning their looks or intelligence or basic life outcomes, usually those characteristics that resonate most closely with sexual selection standards.
For this, he is often called a misogynist, a hater of women.
And yet men get the same treatment — rude talk about their main traits pertaining to what social scientists sometimes call the mating market.
Despite this, I have never heard him called a misandrist.
Why not?
This is a question not so much about Trump but about contemporary American culture.
True alpha males don’t go into politics very often–bureaucracy doesn’t give you quite the same thrill of being in charge. When one suddenly shows up, he doesn’t fit into any of the boxes. The left will try to make him into what they desperately want to see: a weak, tantrum-throwing chimp slinging feces at his opponents in the same way they do. They also see that Trump is narcissistic, which is certainly true, and they make a lot of noise about it, but here they’ve fallen into two deceptions: (1) that a do-gooder would necessarily be better, and (2) that their beloved Alinskyists are not narcissists themselves.
But more importantly, they can only analyze his disagreeable behavior in terms of what they’re conditioned to see: sexism, racism, xenophobia, etc.
[As an example of this: I was chatting with one of my leftist friends last year about Game of Thrones. The main problem he had with it was “mistreatment of women.” Having men tortured and having their heads and various appendages cut off didn’t register as something to get offended about. Only prostitution, nudity, and violence toward women made it onto the radar.]
So when Trump insults Rosie O’Donnell, they’re conditioned to see this as an attack on all women. They refuse to believe that he despises her because she’s despicable.