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In reply to the discussion: It appears some don't want a discussion regarding misogyny [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)Because they're incredibly stupid people. They hear a mention of "misogyny" and the pervasive nature of female sexual objectification and male sexual entitlement in our culture, and what do they do? They get defensive. They swell up and bristle like an angry pufferfish and indignantly remind you that "not all men are violent misogynists!" These are the exact same guys who hear "all men are potential rapists" and think "but I'm not a rapist!" because they're totally incapable of considering things from any perspective but their own.
Really, I'd like to challenge these guys to conduct a thought experiment and imagine that they suddenly found themselves in a world where they were approximately four to six inches shorter, twenty to sixty pounds lighter, and half as strong as 50% of the people they ran into in the course of a given day, and, further, that some significant percentage of these bigger, stronger, and more powerful people insisted on making unwanted sexual advances to them, commented on their clothing and hairstyle, felt entitled to tell them "you should smile! you'd be a lot prettier if you smiled!", thought they had a right to their attention, found themelves catcalled, followed and harassed on the street, and, really, all of the things that most women have to deal with on a regular if not daily basis, and consider for a moment how they'd like it.