Wow, why so much negativity in the man APPRECIATION thread??
At any rate, I hated women as a teenager because girls had given me the most grief growing up, made me jump through impossible hoops to earn "feminine cred", and were just mean, catty, competitive, and backstabbing. In elementary school, there was not one woman or girl I felt I could trust. In jr high, I was turned off by all the boys hitting puberty, AND the girls getting even meaner, so what I had to so was find a group of misanthropes like myself, which I did. We were a mixed group, but I still had a special place in my heart for hating women and femininity. In high school, my woman-hating reached its peak. I was almost sure that I was a gay FtM because men were hot, women were butt-ugly, and of course I didn't want to be butt-ugly so that meant having a man's body.
I got over myself of course, and learned a thing or two, do now all genders are equally wonderful and irritating to me. Irritating especially when its a single-gender binary group, men AND women can be pretty intolerable when they think the "other" sex isn't around.
I don't value masculinity over femininity anymore, but I don't do the other way around either. Personally, I value a mix of both the most... but men are still much hotter.
