I'm going for the Serious Diarist of the Year 2014™ award now.
From Wiki:
Misogyny mɪˈsɒdʒɪni is the hatred or dislike of women or girls. Misogyny can be manifested in numerous ways, including sexual discrimination, denigration of women, violence against women, and sexual objectification of women.[1][2] Misogyny has been characterised as a prominent feature of the mythologies of the ancient world as well as of various religions.
Lately, a lot of nasty shit has been said about women or done to women for their own good or something, because women are clearly too fucking stupid to make their own life choices. It is not important to have dreams or goals or strategies, because that would be considered
thinking, which is highly frowned upon.
What's really appalling is that most of the misogyny is coming from (drum roll, please!) men. Because some men only see women in terms of what women can do for men. As a matter of fact, a woman does not exist on her own terms but, rather, as an object, something to be controlled, a plaything, someone to abuse at your leisure, a second-class citizen, a vixen, a slut, weak, inferior, etc. ad nauseum.
I don't know if it's the advent of Hillary Rodham Clinton as the eventual 2016 Democratic nominee for POTUS or what the FUCK is in this nation's water supply, because we got all sorts of people in this country saying stupid goddamned sexist bullshit and having the luxury of being near a microphone during one of their (what I can only assume are) drunken rampages.
So, ya know. Yikes.
Check this shit out, y'all. All of this putrid crap is, sadly, recent. This is why Americans regularly lie and say they're Canadian when they travel overseas.
Elliot Rodger, that sick fuck:
The Second Phase will represent my War on Women. I will punish all females for the crime of depriving me of sex. They have starved me of sex for my entire youth, and gave that pleasure to other men. In doing so, they took many years of my life away.
I realize that this man was seriously twisted and it's not a fair comparison to all the other subtle issues I'll highlight in this diary, but it plays a very important part in this conversation. What prompted this entitled white male view point that Rodger happily embraced?
Much of the sexism nowadays may be pedestrian, but it's still vital to note and act upon.
Case in point, the opera world of all places:
Stars of the opera world have reacted angrily to a series of reviews criticising the appearance of Glyndebourne singer Tara Erraught.
The Irish-born mezzo soprano was called "stocky" and "dumpy" by critics, all of them male, after her debut as Octavian in Der Rosenkavalier this weekend.
Writing in the Financial Times, Andrew Clark referred to the singer as "a chubby bundle of puppy-fat".
"Clearly overt sexism is still rife," said opera singer Jennifer Johnston.
"Have we arrived at a point where opera is no longer about singing but about the physiques and looks of the singers, specifically the female singers?" she wrote in an opinion column for the Guardian.
Charming. Personally, US Americans are extremely interested in physical appearance because they have merchandise to sell, goddamnit.
Hey you guys! This is just The Best Thing Ever!
BATON ROUGE, La. — The Louisiana State Legislature on Wednesday passed a bill that could force three of the state’s five abortion clinics to close, echoing rules passed in Alabama, Mississippi and Texas and raising the possibility of drastically reduced access to abortion across a broad stretch of the South.
The new rules passed by Republican legislatures require that doctors performing abortions must have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, a provision likely to shut down many abortion clinics across the region. Legal experts say the legislation is raising a fundamental question: At what point is access to abortion so limited that it violates the right to the procedure granted by the United States Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe v. Wade?
Let me tell you how blessed I feel that the mens are protecting all the womens by putting these laws on the books! Hallelujah it's none of your fucking business, you snot-nosed assholes!
This made me laugh and cry at the same time, especially because I'm from Colorado too:
Three of the four GOP candidates for Colorado governor took part in a debate Tuesday that was meant to reassure women that Republicans have their best interests in mind. But if Republicans really want to debunk that there is any war on women, they might not want to start by talking about women as “ornamental” or voting as a dating game.
At the start of the “Women and Colorado’s Future” debate, the moderator explained that it would be like a dating game, where a panel of four women could interview the three “bachelors” — former Congressman Bob Beauprez, former state Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp, and Secretary of State Scott Gessler. The fourth candidate, ex-congressman Tom Tancredo, did not attend.
Jesus H. Christ taking pictures of couples having sex, that shit right there is fucked up. I don't even know where to begin, so I'm not going to try because it would be futile and a complete waste of time.
Even women do it, like "Princeton Mom" Susan Patton, because society has definitely brainwashed them just as much as men:
There’s so much in her anachronistic and sexist book to condemn that it’s almost not worth it. Young women should get weight-loss surgery before heading to college so they can feel more comfortable in their smaller skin? Women should not give away the “milk” – sex – or men won’t “buy” them in marriage? Learn how to bake bread? Umm … it’s 2014. The idea of undergoing major surgery at a young age for cosmetic reasons is grotesque and unhealthy. Women actually like sex, aren’t afraid to admit it and don’t, in fact, see themselves as prostitutes trading sex for a marriage certificate. And if you like to bake bread, go wild, but there’s something to be said for getting a good job so you can buy bread.
But the most troubling “advice” from Patton (the mother of two male Princeton grads) is this: “If you are too drunk to speak, then you may be incapable of saying no or warding off unwanted advances. And then it’s all on you.”
Fortunately, some brave people are fighting back. There is #YesAllWomen, which grew organically as a response to the Isla Vista killings, and there are l
ittle pockets of awesomeness seemingly everywhere you turn:
Daniel McCawley, the owner of the Atomic Grill in Morgantown, West Virginia, has achieved a Flawless Victory over a troll who wrote an online restaurant review suggesting that the servers should “show more skin.” And so McCawley obliged, by introducing a new dish for the restaurant: from May 16 to Memorial day, Atomic Grill will offer a potato skin special, with all proceeds — not profits, proceeds — going to the West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information Services. That’s just about the Platonic Ideal of a turning a fuck-you into something beautiful, and our only regret is that we live in freaking Idaho, where a person just can’t find a potato for love nor money.
As long as there are asshole sexists walking among us, there will be a group of people resisting such assholes.
It's the only thing that keeps me going these days.