Effects Of Misogyny On Women

The Change in Sexism As Letty Cottin Pogrebin once said, “ When men are oppressed it’s a tragedy. When women are oppressed it’s simply tradition.” Many women have to deal with sexism in everyday basis; sexism is the prejudice or discrimination based on the sex of a person. Trough

("Sexism | Sociology." Encyclopedia Britannica). “ In the previous year, men is the over-control figure to rule women that is the domination.” (Phoenix, "Sexism in Todays Society.").

Woman are inaccurately thought of as being overly emotional, and irrational. The belief that their only value is superficial. “she is smart, for a woman”, “who is taking care of your children, if you are working?” These are the type of ignorant comments women have come to expect when striving to meet their individual goals. Rather than being praised for their ambitions, they are criticized.

Can women be misogynistic? Misogyny is the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against women or girls. I 110% believe that women can be misogynist, a great example would be the women who voted for President Donald Trump. “53% of white women voted for a man who calls women pigs, has a string of sexual assault claims still outstanding, who will happily turn back women’s rights to contraception and abortion if it suits him.” (Moore 2016)

Women have found themselves at the bottom of society’s hierarchal pyramid for eons. Even though females make contributions that prove vital to the world’s function, they are still regarded as the weaker link. The female plight of constantly facing debasement is a pawn used to ensure compliance. It is a common notion that if one is demeaned enough, he or she will conform to the suggested persona. Society tests this notion through its treatment of women.

Sexism is a prevalent issue that society struggles with due to all to of the negative stereotypes that are created. Today numerous musicians bring awareness to sexism through there songs, one being Beyonce. The popular musician Beyonce fights for women’s empowerment in her music in order to unite women and go against sexism and stereotypes in her popular songs “Flawless”, “If I were a boy”,“Lemonade”, and several more. Beyonce says, "I try to write songs and sing songs that we as women need to hear". "I know sometimes it 's hard to realize how amazing we are.

Shannon Ross K. Miller ENG4UI - P4 20 January, 2023 Selecting The Villain: A Patriarchal Bias "You are a woman with a man inside watching a woman. You are your own voyeur. " - Margaret Atwood. This quote addresses the unconscious response of women to conform to the male gaze without their knowledge or consent. As a result, women monitor themselves constantly and treat others based on a patriarchal view they are often unaware they employ.

Misogynistic ideas have been a huge problem in U.S history and other parts of the world. Misogyny can be defined as “A hatred of women” according to the Merriam Webster Dictionary. Not only does misogyny exist today, but it’s motivating sexism as well. Why do these ideas continue to exist and who or what is fueling these ideas? A documentary called Generation Me: Misogyny in Media and Culture explains how misogynistic ideas and sexism is represented in our media and culture.

How does this all relate to modern day issues? While the aforementioned essay within her book was not necessarily written all too long ago, feminism has changed and adapted to fit in with younger generations. As of right now feminism is currently quite the hot topic throughout the media in both western regions as well as more conservative regions. Oppression continues to remain hidden within “chivalrous” behaviors and ideals as presented by male dominated institutions that attempt to make decisions on behalf of women. Take for example, the war on Planned Parenthood and female healthcare.

After the process of degrading women and instilling the feeling of inferiority, women share these sentiments and eventually enforce them

Sexism Against Women: Issues With Sexism Against Women In society there is a lot of sexism and ideas of how women should be and how they should act. Telling them what they should wear, what type of jobs they should have, and most people have old school idealistic ideas that a woman’s only job is in the kitchen and daily household chores. But those ideas are outdated and do not belong in the twenty-first century. The short story, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother telling her daughter how she should act, dress, and how to be an acceptable lady.

Establishing male supremacy is the mindset of a misogynist. This is specifically important because gender is constantly changing; when femininity alters and masculinity changes to compensate, always fluctuating based on the other gender. Constantly changing genders cause confusion, but change also brings awareness to the issues it causes. Recognition of the subordination of women has compromised the dominance of males leading to new forms of masculinity. Since women have begun to explore the “domains” of men, misogynists change what it means to be masculine to compensate.

Drawing on Anderson’s (2015) definition, modern misogyny is a devious and subtle form of prejudice that uses feminist ideology against itself. The 21st century paradigm, as Anderson discussed in Modern Misogyny: Anti-Feminism in a Post-Feminist Era, asserts that feminism won, and that women are now empowered and have limitless choices. These mistaken notions of gender equality in modern world underpin what Anderson called modern misogyny, which has especially detrimental effects on women since it deters collective action in favor of individual. Issues such as sexual harassment and assault come to be individual victim’s problems, and are overlooked as systemic sequel of inequality. Social changes enabled modern misogyny to build up a stronghold.

However, modern feminists are tarnishing the image along, with the meaning of feminism because of their methods of attaining

Gender biases and discrimination is a topic which has been discussed since the suffrage movement time of the early 19th century in America and other parts of the world. Most people, feminist mostly, have argued that gender difference was created due to the perceptions of people in the society on male and female, and the type of upbringing of children by their parents. Based on this difference, many have argued that the female gender has shoulder a burden of discrimination in the society and is continuously facing sexual abuse and harassments which have spread in the community. This has led to banning and censorship of some of the songs, laws and even videos which seems to be spreading gender bias in the society. One of the victims of this kind