Open Letter to Anonymous and the one they helped, Jane Doe

[BlancheSplanchnik]

53. salivating over football while the souls of their kids are destroyed

You put it well.

I think there's a clue contained in your phrase, too.

It reflects the fact that what boys and men do is valued while what girls and women do is not. And the converse as well--if it's done by females, it is less valuable or even specifically contemptible. For example, the proliferation of the word "douche" as an ultimate insult: an expression of the deepest disgust and rejection.

To be devalued as a group, taken as the defacto butt of jokes and used as a convenient t group for leering mockery and USED BY ENTERTAINMENT/ADVERTISING as "spicy" decoration is to be not truly human.

In a sex obsessed and macho society, of course females will not only be attacked for their identity as sexual commodities but they will also tend to learn that their only power or agency is their ability to get attention through attractiveness and ability to provide sex.

For example, in many many towns, teenage girls ache to be cheerleaders. Do I need to spell it out that cheerleaders--nameless non-individuals--are the modern eqivalent of concubines and harem girls given to and owned by male heroes? And that there is appeal in achieving that attention and value as an ornament to the powerful....

That archetype is still worshipped in our culture and so, is it any wonder that it plays out in destructive ways?