Misogyny

06/18/2013

Like all curses, misogyny is rarely absolute: it being a dislike of, contempt for, or an ingrained prejudice against women.

Right at this moment our Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, has pulled the misogyny card in an effort to pull back some of the lost ground she has in the lead-up to the next election. Apart from this being very cynical politics that will barely work, it simply underlines the fact that she isn’t much of a statesperson.

Moving on the from the circus politics, she does has a point. Many of those men and women who are motivated enough to get into the game of politics, or those that feel the need to influence these clowns on behalf of their own self-interests, also have character flaws that seem to be be correlated with non-nonsensical attitudes such as misogyny and racism.

To dislike or act against another, or a group of others, just because they appear to be different belies a total lack of common sense, and also a fundamental sense of insecurity. And, specifically with regards to misogyny, to feel that half the population of people on the planet is ‘them not us’ is downright fucking stupid.

I have met enough misogynists to be able to assert that there are two types; those that have learnt this behaviour whilst young and if given counselling could unlearn it, and those that really and truly yearn for past days when women where servants or slaves or worse. This lot are downright dangerous and need to be ring-fenced.