Reality: Actually, it’s been a “real thing” longer than you’ve been alive. The term dates back something like a century ago (and was, even then, being used to refer to feminists). The only reason it was “supposed to be a joke” was because you and people like you desperately try to mock the concept in order to delegitimize it (and MRAs). In other words, you tried to turn it into a joke, and failed.

Did you ever actually look up misandry in a dictionary? Did you not notice that the origin date is older than the modern MRM, much less tumblr, by decades? Did you notice that it includes contempt and prejudice against men? Do you know that many people seriously believe that lolmisandry tumblrfems actually hate men, including people who actually hate men themselves? Come to think of it, isn’t that exactly the same argument feminists often make for rape jokes? That they encourage actual rapists? Except that, wherps, Western society has generally viewed M>F rape as one of the worst crimes imaginable for longer than anyone on Earth has been alive, while “boys are stupid, throw rocks at them” is a bestselling piece of merchandise.

Ironically, feminism’s efforts to suppress MRAs just keep bringing more attention to them. They’ve done more for the visibility of MRAs than MRAs have.