This is a classic case of misogyny and its developmental course, as it usually festers at a young age due to a traumatic event involving a female figure. It is a hatred men have for women, one that typically goes unrecognized or ignored by the individual. Signs of misogyny may also go ...
Master Shifu, voiced by Dustin Hoffman, is an integral character within the "Kung Fu Panda" franchise, providing wisdom and guiding the next generation of great warriors within the Furious Five, as well as Po (Jack Black). Amid all the tough love and jokes, there's one nagging question th...
I don’t like talking about my own personal experiences of misogyny because I have a lot of layers of hurt, disappointment and anger to deal with on the subject. And I need to deal with it all at some point. But a lot of it is very personal and private. I started talking a little...
“The Handmaid’s Tale,” by Margaret Atwood, explores all these themes about women who are being subjugated to misogyny to a patriarchal society and had many means by which women tried to gain not only their individualism and their own independence. Her purpose of writing this novel is to ...
Nature alone doesn’t provide the neat and tidy, the either/or. Anne Fausto-Sterling has beautifully shown, inSexing the Body, that categorizing even a body as male or female often, even almost always, comes down to a social decision.[2]Intersexed persons, roughly 2 percent of the human...
(not having seen the actual book, mind you) that Lobina’s bile is justified. In any case, it is highly entertaining, and I think that is enough of a basis to present these excerpts to you; he introduces it by saying “this is possibly the worst book I have ever read in my career...
When it comes to how well-meaning #GirlDads tend to interact with their daughters, certain creepy cultural narratives of female adolescent development could cause way more harm than any airbrushed Instagram post ever could. In her book,Relative Intimacy: Fathers, Adolescent Daughters, and...
Peggy corrected that ‘In fact, the female role is a political phenomenon, not a biological one’.24 She outlined that ‘our Amerikan social structure is male supremacist – i.e. there is a dominance hierarchy (a political structure) with men on top and women at the bottom. Exchanges ...
not be tied down by a man or children, not wear certain clothes, not accept femininity on any level. In today’s feminist landscape, in which sex work is fiercely defended as just another form of work,The Female Eunuchfeels, in many ways, like it’s not from another era, but another...
This 2001 debut novel from Neshani Andreas is set in a small Namibian village but tackles big themes: the misogyny Namibian women often face and the power of female friendship. Mee Ali, a happily married woman, is friends with Kauna, whose husband abuses her. Then Kauna’s husband dies un...