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When men call women "gold diggers" (to reverse power dynamics), they're indicating they're capable of understanding a transactional relationship. Yet when you point out misogyny, there's usually the claim they can't be misogynists because they have a wife/gf. 1/
Suddenly they don't understand using someone to extract a good. Het men who hate women pursue & marry women because they enjoy the services they extract without compensation. They understand the role they expect of women & desire that, not the human being. They don't love her. 2/
Patriarchal men want a product, a product that provides services and impresses other men, but they don't respect that product as a human being. You can't respect or love someone you believe is inferior & deserving of oppression. 3/
But they love to pretend they don't understand this, and some very well may not because they don't have to think about the "product" or what it does to them to be viewed as subhuman. They don't care, but they also won't abide the suggestion they should, which is why they deflect.
If a misogynistic man truly cared about the wife he uses as a shield to preserve his bigotry, he'd reflect on women identifying his misogyny, horrified that he could be harming a person he claims to care for. He'd examine his views/behavior. 5/
But he won't because he doesn't believe she deserves that. She's just property, after all. Beneath him. And a change in his views/behavior might result in a change in the dynamics of the relationship he benefits from. 6/
Also, that guy that claims to suddenly value women now that he has a daughter? He still doesn't. But this "property" isn't a resource for extraction (yet), but he knows how other men will view and treat her because that's how he views and treats another man's daughter. 7/
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