#misanthropes

[alterbeing-confessions]

(If this sends more than once its because my connection was bad, please delete the duplicate.)

To the misanthrope anon: misanthropy is a perfectly logical and valid position to take once you've had your eyes opened to general human nature. Humans are awful in a lot of ways and you don't need anyone's permission to dislike or mistrust them. (And calling it a "white supremacist" position when it applies to ALL of humanity? I wish better critical thinking skills on these "Everything I hate is n*zism" anons who replied to you.) I'm a misanthrope as well for these reasons, though I meet humans now and then who are decent enough and who I grow to like. But the few exceptions to the rule do not negate the rule.

Furthermore, misanthropy does not necessarily lead to violence or even treating people poorly. I'm respectful to everyone who is respectful to me (and to many who aren't) and I am never violent toward a soul. The really vile people I've met who had NO restraint regarding how they treat people were the ones who would never identify as a misanthrope; and incidentally, it's people like that who contributed to my misanthropy through their treatment of me.

While we are not entitled to TREAT people any any way we please, we are certainly entitled to hold whatever opinion toward people that we please. You're not engaging in "wrongthink" by being a misanthrope; you're reacting with a normal mistrust and aversion to the dominant species on this planet which goes around mindlessly destroying everyone and everything. Don't let anyone gaslight you out of your common sense. Let your misanthropy take you to a place of finally really not caring about the approval of others.

-wastelandentity

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[therianconfessionsblog]

i think misanthropes should be more accepted in the community. i'm a misanthrope. personally, i think humans are a plauge, are parasites, and have done an ungodly more amount of harm than they have done or ever will do good. they're the reason i made up and like to believe the phrase 'love the person, hate the species'.

people treat misanthropes like absolute garbage, as if there's no reason for the distaste or they're out of proportion. i think i am more than reasonable to be hating humans. not only have they harmed anything not humans but they also actively harm their own kind.

humans as a species are nothing more to me than two-legged unendingly destructive creatures with enough brains to make it everyone else's problem. i will NEVER trust humans or the fake concept of 'humanity' and i don't think this should be something controversial. because what animal are you, then, to defend those who oppress, enslave, overhunt, and abuse you?

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Im guna to go ahead and post this, but for future reference (and this gose for everyone, not just misanthropes), please do not refer to groups of people as parasites, a plague, or something else in that vain

Might just be the American political climate finaly getting to me but referring to entire groups of people as such never bodes well

[ozkar-krapo]

Gregor MacKENZIE & The MISANTHROPES

"Torture that Girl"

(LP. Rave Up rcds. 2007 / rec. 1978-81) [US]

[j-august]

Women at forty do not become ancient misanthropes, or stern Rhadamanthine moralists, indifferent to the world's pleasures—no, not even though they be widows. There are those who think that such should be the phase of their minds. I profess that I do not so think. I would have women, and men also, young as long as they can be young. It is not that a woman should call herself in years younger than her father's family Bible will have her to be. Let her who is forty call herself forty; but if she can be young in spirit at forty, let her show that she is so.

Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington

[dannyosu97]

Misanthrope Research #1

I have been recently been researching Misanthropes for my summer brief which requires me to make 3 of my own original creations looking at various characters from a different fictional materials and productions

#1 Shrek

In the Shrek trilogy, we see Shrek many times talk badly about humans and sometimes being resentful and not wanting to be anywhere near them. A good example of this is where he lives, Shrek lives in a swamp by himself and then later Fiona and his children, but always stays as far away from humans as he can.

#2 Ebeneezer Scrooge 

Scrooge is a classic Misanthrope that has been seen in many depictions of Charles Dickens ‘’A Christmas Carol’’ where in every possible way he treats people poorly whether they work for him or come into contact with him.

#3 The Grinch

The Grinch is always thought to not hate humans but Christmas itself this is actually the other way round, The Grinch enjoyed Christmas to some extent, it was humans that he hated, this was because of how cheerful and joyous they were for a holiday and didn’t like it.

#4 Miss Havisham - Great Expectations

After her husband to be jilted her at the altar, her hatred for men began, she locked herself away for many years and was later described as someone who was ‘aged by the lack of sunlight’ she later died in a house fire, after her wedding dress set on fire

#5 Patrick Bateman - American Psycho

Patrick Bateman was a character from American Psycho who was a manic serial killer and was responsible a high amount of deaths as people made him feel ‘’inadequate’’he was disliked by many people as well.

[clemsfilmdiary]

The Song of Lunch (2010, Niall MacCormick)

2/15/18

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