Ladies, it's All Your Fault!

[malthaussen]

45. I didn't think you were serious

Since "why do men hate women so much" is painting with rather a broad brush. Reading your other posts in this thread, it's clear the question does perplex you. I do think we would need to do some work on the non-hating end of the bell-curve to find out why some men don't hate women, but I think the current hatred outbreak may have reasons that differ from the generalized woman-hate that has been shared by so many men for so long a period.

Most anthropology I have read suggests that the reasons offered upthread are most likely: hatred of women, segregation of women, discrimination against women seems to be tied up with the reproductive issue, which would account for why the Republicans are hitting it so hard now (and would tend to refute my suspicion that there may be other contributing factors for today's outbreak of witch-hunting). I've always had trouble, personally, with that explanation, because personally the reason doesn't trouble me.

One problem, though, with finding the reasons lying deep in racial memory is that it not only assumes we have not progressed at all since we were just coming in from the hunter/gatherer days, but would tend to cast a pessimistic light on the concept that we could evolve at all. If we are still atavistically responding as we did a few thousand years ago, what's going to happen this weekend to change all that? This is, probably, why I seek for a more recent explanation: in the perhaps vain hope that the recent outbreak is an aberration, and not a reversion to form.

-- Mal