Misogyny and Sexism in the News

[Kobi]

Allison,

This is the mentality I saw back in the 1960's (if memory serves, that is a few decades before you were born). Rape victims back then were interrogated by law enforcement. Their sexual histories, their lifestyles, their clothing, etc were all used to blame the victim for her assault. Plus, she was subjected to describing the assault in detail with questioning as to did she enjoy it? Did she orgasm?

Male privilege and entitlement is alive and well and deeply ingrained in our culture and cultures around the world. And, it is kept alive not only by individual people (men and women) but by institutions like colleges, the military, the workplace, the media etc who cant quite seem to grasp that this isn't ok.

Internalized sexism and misogyny and the privilege and entitlement is part of our socialization from birth. Both males and females are TAUGHT their respective places and the places of their opposites. It's about control and power. It starts at birth and is an exhausting never ending battle.

Isms have been very carefully and deliberately woven into the social fabric of the world. When we have to address sexism and misogyny and the rest of the isms, internalized and externalized, here on the Planet, the insidiousness of it should hit home.