misogyny is as rife now as it was then.....1917.... Courage in women is often mistaken for insanity. ~Quoted by a male doctor who examined Alice Paul when the government wanted her to be seen as suicidal for her hunger strike in an effort to gain women the right to vote. men will do the same today... i know good guys, but i know that there is rarely anyone willing to back a woman...she is always alone with her struggles because women will back their men against other women....... 2014.....Sociologist Michael Flood, at the University of Wollongong, defines misogyny as the hatred of women, and notes: Though most common in men, misogyny also exists in and is practised by women against other women or even themselves. Misogyny functions as an ideology or belief system that has accompanied patriarchal, or male-dominated societies for thousands of years and continues to place women in subordinate positions with limited access to power and decision making. [...] Aristotle contended that women exist as natural deformities or imperfect males [...] Ever since, women in Western cultures have internalised their role as societal scapegoats, influenced in the twenty-first century by multimedia objectification of women with its culturally sanctioned self-loathing and fixations on plastic surgery, anorexia and bulimia...
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 11:01:30 +0000
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