Misogyny
In a quote by John Berger, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.” Over the course of history, views on women has changed drastically. Yet, to this day there is an incredible amount of misogyny roaming around in society. Even though there has been a great amount of growth in the way society thinks, people still have more to learn. Many believe that they are not misogynist, but they don’t realize that things they say or do are in some cases against women. Sexual objectification, authority, and entitlement have a lot do with ways people can be misogynist.
There can be many misconceptions of what misogyny is and people may take it as anti-feminism. However, the two are different and anti-feminism is being against feminist ideals, not pro-misogyny. Anti-feminism is the dislike of feminism, while misogyny is the dislike of women. Confusing the two is what most people do and they are different. In order to better understand how people are misogynist without knowing there are a few examples. Said by Brogaard, “He is extremely competitive, especially with women. If a woman does better than him socially or professionally, he feels terrible.” Men typically get …show more content…
They may believe that this sort of prejudice was made up to get more offended by everything. There was an uproar of memes being made about how not all men are misogynistic and people may argue that not everyone is against women. “Sexism happens, but the effect of “reverse sexism” on men is as bad or worse” (Zimmerman). Equality and reverse sexism is an argument many will make to oppose misogyny. The argument where people say “don’t forget about men” and “men are victims of prejudice too” are things opposing the idea of
In a quote by John Berger, “You painted a naked woman because you enjoyed looking at her, put a mirror in her hand and you called the painting “Vanity,” thus morally condemning the woman whose nakedness you had depicted for your own pleasure.” Over the course of history, views on women has changed drastically. Yet, to this day there is an incredible amount of misogyny roaming around in society. Even though there has been a great amount of growth in the way society thinks, people still have more to learn. Many believe that they are not misogynist, but they don’t realize that things they say or do are in some cases against women. Sexual objectification, authority, and entitlement have a lot do with ways people can be misogynist.
There can be many misconceptions of what misogyny is and people may take it as anti-feminism. However, the two are different and anti-feminism is being against feminist ideals, not pro-misogyny. Anti-feminism is the dislike of feminism, while misogyny is the dislike of women. Confusing the two is what most people do and they are different. In order to better understand how people are misogynist without knowing there are a few examples. Said by Brogaard, “He is extremely competitive, especially with women. If a woman does better than him socially or professionally, he feels terrible.” Men typically get …show more content…
They may believe that this sort of prejudice was made up to get more offended by everything. There was an uproar of memes being made about how not all men are misogynistic and people may argue that not everyone is against women. “Sexism happens, but the effect of “reverse sexism” on men is as bad or worse” (Zimmerman). Equality and reverse sexism is an argument many will make to oppose misogyny. The argument where people say “don’t forget about men” and “men are victims of prejudice too” are things opposing the idea of