Yeah, I don't think it's about strong dislike, I think it's about the dynamics that people normalise. Most men throughout history wouldn't have said they strongly disliked women, but they normalised and expected a dynamic where they were obeyed and served by women. Where it was okay to ignore or talk down to/over women. Where women were never in positions of authority.

We've made progress in these areas for women. Which means the dynamics between young men and women have changed quite a bit. But some young men are struggling with the nuances of this shift. Some because they still want to dominate women, but others, simply because they're reflexively lumped in with the men who want to dominate women because they happen to have a penis

Young men are regularly taught that women are equals. Which is obviously a good thing. But then, they're still expected to be the ones asking girls out (we don't talk enough about how difficult this is, especially for young, not especially attractive men). They're still expected to pay on dates. They're still expected to put their body on the line in a fight if fighting is ever necessary. They're still expected to be ambitious and successful and confident and "manly" in ways that women almost never are. Men and women, at least romantically speaking, aren't equal.

Young men are also falling behind academically, they're struggling with loneliness and depression, they're facing all of the disparities I mentioned in the article, all while being demonised for problems that started long before they were born.

So yeah, all this to say that a strong dislike isn't necessary for any of these problems to exist. Just a failure to listen and empathise and humanise each other.