re: #5 LudwigVanQuixote

I can’t wait for your return or your thoughts about women who are misogynist. I ask though, that you post some of those thoughts here.

Well, we’re a woman-hating culture. Oppression succeeds only with the willing collaboration of some of the oppressed.

There’s a variety of reasons why women can be misogynistic. The main one is that they internalise the misogynistic messages of the culture. And in any oppressed population, some of the oppressed enforce the oppression— because they have a relatively privileged position within the oppressed group, and they don’t want to jeopardise the status quo (and thus their own status).

(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).

As to the women who inhabit the griefhole blog, they have no shame and are perfectly happy to dwell among the sexist bastards there— just so long as it’s not directed at them.

more to say about the dynamic of women who actively hate on other women, rather than those who acquiese to woman-hating, but I’ll do that in a moment. This is long already. :)