re: #6 iceweasel

(An example outside the realm of sexism would be the ‘house slave’ in the Old South who looks down on the ‘field slaves’. This is a person who has internalised the values of the slaveowning society to such an extent that he’s replicating them and propagating them.) Part of this dynamic is the very human desire to identify oneself with the powerful, and not the oppressed. (This is the same reason why abused children often grow up to be abusers themselves, or despise their mother for being hit rather than their father for hitting).

I suppose that is much like Rodan demanding that he is white when he is not.

Of course, there are many other sad examples of this in human history.

But onto the other points that you have written in your excellent (as always) post. It sounds as if you are writing about a sort of feminine Stockholm syndrome when you are talking about those who have internalized the message. That is really dreadful to imagine, but I can’t find fault in the assertions from my own experiences with certain women.