Diana Alastair๐๐ค๐ โข โโโก๏ธ@sappholives83
Why in godโs name do men hate us so much? Thatโs what I donโt understand. Itโs not feminism - women were beaten and raped long before any of us dreamed of having legal rights or equality, and women are beaten and raped and hated even more frequently in countries where feminism doesnโt exist.
What really blows my mind is that the worst misogynists in Western society are the liberal men we all thought supported the idea of equality for women. Iโll admit it โ I didnโt see that one coming, but once I did, it was quite the eye opener.
Liberal men have spent the last fifty years twisting the idea of womenโs liberation into something that benefits them. The sexual revolution, rather than setting women free, has served mainly to make men feel even more entitled to womenโs bodies than they did before. Instead of waiting until marriage, or even until the relationship is serious, men now expect sex within the first few dates, especially if they spend money. Sex has become transactional โ and women arenโt the ones who benefit from that.
Worse, however, has been the normalization of increasingly violent pornography. The covers of detective magazines helped to inspire serial killers for two generations; what, then, is todayโs pornography inspiring, with its constant theme of women being โdestroyedโ by the almighty phallus? What are men being conditioned to enjoy, with videos of women getting slapped and choked and spit on? What does it tell boys about sex when video after video shows them men getting off on hurting and degrading women? When pornography frames sex as an act of destruction?
We already know that choking - which can and sometimes does kill with shocking ease - has been so normalized that itโs now an expected part of sex for young adults; young men donโt even bother to ask for consent much of the time. And thatโs what itโs done to psychologically normal men. Now think about what it can do to a man who already has a warped view of women, who sees porn actresses being degraded and thinks that means women like degradation. Thatโs a dangerous way for a man to think, especially if he also resents them for not wanting to sleep with him.
Say what you will about social conservatives; at least the majority of them arenโt gaslighting women into thinking that pornography and promiscuity are liberating.