Misogyny isn’t caused by male horniness

[Tumbulu]

11. This really got me thinking

When I took my first (and only) Economics course in college I was stunned to learn that one of the main assumptions of Capitalism is that all people are motivated by money and the acquisition of it.

Now really, how many people do you know fit this description? Maybe 10% of the people that I know are primarily motivated by money. Most everyone else is motivated by : doing interesting work, doing work that makes the world a better place, watching things grow, wanting to fit in, wanting to make things beautiful, wanting to find a soul mate, the desire to explore and create......

Now maybe I only know a subset of the population....I really have never fit in anywhere.....but I have asked other people and they usually think that it is 20-30% of the population who hold making money as their primary interest in life.

And so what does this have to do with this discussion? Well, I think that the desire for power does motivate some people....but I do not think it is the majority of people or even the majority of men. I think that motivations are quite varied within every population and even more so within cultures. There are people/men who really want power, and there are those like the guy writing the original piece who seem a bit confused about it all.

I think this guy speaks for some men- perhaps quite a few- hence the popularity of the piece. But the patriarchy was constructed by those same types of people who think that all people are motivated by money...the same kind of what I consider to be those of limited thinking and experience. The older I get the more I am coming to the conclusion that it is this small subgroup that really pushes us all around.......