Feminism is *not* a Female Issue (Warning: Misogyny and Violence--not the cheeriest Sunday Listen)

[SorellaLaBefana]

Informative half-hour YT discussion between UK psychologist Previn Karian (whose channel it is) and Chrissie Pollard a UK news presenter.

Do think he dwells on and overly generalises the view of men as basically quite savage beings simply waiting in the darkness for a chance to hurt a woman.

However, this can be taken as reaction to the fact most discussions of misogyny focus on general societal factors, whilst ignoring the solid fact that some/many men do feel superior to women simply because they are able to physically dominate them.

“Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.” Margaret Atwood

Female hate crimes, humiliation, harassment, degradation, rape and murder have been celebrated in cultures and religions for centuries as the acceptable norm. The idea that this might be wrong is a modern one. Hence the word: "misogyny"...

This discussion is a necessary starter on the psychological origins of men's hate and fear of women. Until men confront their own darkness and shadow between themselves, there can be no progress in clearing out the roots of misogyny...

I am a feminist in the sense that I believe women to be simply, and wholly, human.

Not an original thought. Indeed, I read a similarly succinct view of feminism in an interview with an author (possibly Margaret Atwood) many years ago. Sadly, The Google doesn’t find that interview for me this morning.