Do men really suck that much?

What does it take to be a feminist literary critic? I have no idea. Since I was apparently born with the wrong chromosome, I can’t fully understand what they are looking for in the text. After reading the feminist reading of “To His Coy Mistress”, I grew one step closer to understanding the feminist mind. Men are bad, sex-crazed villains, women are pure and perfect. I’d hate to sound sexist with this response, but it seems that the feminist must be sexist. I had to read this poem for another class, in that case, I read it as a poetry student, I focused on structure, meter and language.. My professor didn’t bring up feminism, and none of the women in the class seemed to have a problem with it. Is Marvell a sexist? Is the whole point of the poem to present the male superiority? YES, at least that’s how a feminist must read the poem. Feminist are obviously pro-women, in that sense, they must also be anti-man, Marvell is a man, strike one. Marvell writes about sex, feminists think men are all sex crazed bad guys, strike two. Marvell negatively portrays the purity of the women in the poem. STRIKE THREE! In the same sense, I think it would be possible to read the poem in a different way, but still keep it feminist. The man in the poem could represent the stereotypical man, who only wants sex. Let us not forget that the two characters do not end up having sex in the poem, while the man argues towards it, she remains pure as far as we can tell.