Misogyny: The Ironic Oppression Of Women

Noteworthy for this essay, Raymond admits that her biased stance is grounded in placing value on one’s sex designated at birth. She unknowingly hints at another social philosophy that employs this line of thinking: misogyny. The systemic oppression of women stems historically from designating women as biologically inferior. To quote a popular ketchup ad from the 1950’s, “you mean a woman can open it…?” (Allen). The ketchup bottle, a proverbial symbol of man’s dominance over women, second only to the pickle jar, highlights patriarchy’s foundation of attaching women’s biological makeup with weakness and, transitively, inferiority. Is it not the age-old expectation of daughters to find a strapping young man to provide for and take care of them? …show more content…
An intersection of the spheres of oppression called transphobia and misogyny, transmisogyny is “the negative attitudes, expressed through cultural hate, individual and state violence, and discrimination directed toward transwomen and trans and gender-nonconforming people on the feminine end of the gender spectrum” (Kacere). Transmisogyny is misogyny (yes, this means trans-exclusive feminists are being misogynistic) because it is rooted in a discriminatory and oppressive hatred of women. Transmisogyny is the reason transwomen fear getting catcalled on the street…not because of the sexual harassment, but because of possibly being “discovered” as transgender and risk being harmed or killed for it. Violence against women is misogyny, whether that violence is physical or not and whether you consider that person a woman or not. Trans-exclusive feminists frequently defend their claims by arguing that transwomen cannot be considered women because they “cannot experience all forms of subordination that women as women face” (Egbert). The existence of transmisogyny disproves this claim, exhibiting instead that transwomen experience a form of misogyny different from what cis-gender women