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Fear is at the root. As unchecked fear develops into misogyny it goes unrecognized for what it is because it's supported by our culture. Not only unrecognized, but really standardized.
There are males,--and females who are so conditioned they can't and won't deal with the hate, or self hate.
You take a group of human beings, impose a set of characteristics to them, and then constantly and consistently de-value those characteristics you cause extensive, sometimes unrepairable damage. For women, this has been done to us a very long time. It's been done to entire cultures, like American Natives. What was valued and valuable culturally was put down, made sub-human. Savage. Natives are still trying to recover, and will never regain what they lost.
It's been done to our Gay brothers and Sisters.
With females and males, the damage is in a feedback loop and as the loop draws tighter it strangles both sexes. But In this battle, you'll notice, it's been left up to WOMEN to change, to try to fix the damage, to literally save society, not men. WOMEN had to fight for basic rights, just to get enough of a voice to address misogyny. WOMEN had to fight for health care, reproductive care, research into cancers and conditions that kills us, safety in our streets. One of the most interesting--and sad-- examples is MADD. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers---Jesus, why'd it take MOTHERS? Where were the fucking FATHERS? On and on...
Then to be called a man hater. Fuck that. As a feminist, I'm fighting for not just for women, I'm fighting for the whole human race. When rape culture is dominant, abuse is common, torture is acceptable, war is THE answer--all symptoms of a very sick society--- some asshole who thinks courage is having balls comes along and says "Why do you hate men" I don't mother fucker. I love men. But I love the human race much, much more, and believe from the bottom of my heart until women have true liberation, until we have true balance that loop will continue to tighten the damage will continue and grow worse. It's my opinion that misogyny is at the root of all of society's ills.
I refuse to let the misogynist get in my way. There is a world to save and feminism is part of what will save it, if indeed it's salvageable. They can't have my power and if they're too scared to act, or too comfortable to move, or think they aren't part of the problem because they personally aren't a rapist, too damn bad.
And that misogynist driven idiotic question deserves all the scorn and disgust I can heap on it.
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