Category: misogyny

Men Need Sex (fiction from Fighting Words)

We got so tired of hearing that.  Men need sex.  There were so many iterations, so many variations  … 

In 1943, Maslow, in his hierarchy of needs, included sex among the physiological needs that must be satisfied before anything else.  Unfortunately, his theory, along with an unforgettable pyramid illustration, became accepted as fact, …

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In every roomful of men …

https://zawn.substack.com/p/5-statistics-about-misogynistic-violence

“Dating men is statistically the most dangerous thing a woman can do—followed closely by living with and having children with men.”

Men, read that sentence again. And again. And again. Until you get it.

“The specific statistics each study uncovered vary a bit, as you might expect. But the findings …

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Excellent piece on calling women crazy

https://zawn.substack.com/p/why-is-patriarchy-so-obsessed-with

“We tell women deprived of sleep and support in the postpartum period that their exhaustion must be due to their crazy woman hormones. When girls enter puberty—and the world of dehumanization and male abuse it brings—we pretend their distress is due to vague “puberty hormones.” And when, after a lifetime of exploitation, …

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Fighting Words (a story from Fighting Words)

She was so tired of it.  They all were.  Every day, as they walked from one classroom to the next, or to the cafeteria, or to the gym, “Hey, ho!”  “Gonna do me?”  “C’mere, I got somethin’ for you!” 

Then from school to the bus stop.  “Y’all jus’ bitches, you know that, right?” …

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Fucking bitch.

“A guy on a bicycle was staring at her so intently he nearly got hit by a bus. ‘Watch out,’ she cried, but the sound was swallowed by the simultaneous blast of the bus driver’s horn. The biker swerved, and the bus just missed him. He slammed into a parked car and was thrown to …

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from I Don’t, Clementine Ford

There’s a lot here and every bit is worth reading. 

Better yet, just get the book.  And read it.  Every word.

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from blurb for Ford’s I Don’t

“why do so many women still believe that our value is intrinsically tied to being chosen by a man?”

“Ford explains …

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some excellent bits from Roper’s Sex Dolls, Robots, and Woman Hating

“… when sex doll and robot advocates promote the use of these products as being beneficial for ‘people’, they mean male people. When they claim sex robots could help alleviate loneliness, they mean men’s loneliness, not women’s. When they argue sex robots could be used by the elderly, they mean elderly men. When they …

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Suppose two married women …

Suppose two married women get jobs outside the home at the same time, forcing their husbands to hire someone to do the cooking, cleaning, and childcare.  Ten hours/day, 5 days/week, at $20/hr.  It’s a lot to afford, but the men have so-called ‘breadwinner’ salaries.

Suppose it turns out that Emma is hired by …

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Suppose by some biochemical quirk

Suppose by some biochemical quirk, the hormones we’ve been feeding cows inhibits testosterone in humans, so the more meat men eat, the weaker they become. 

Suppose that within a year, males lost their 30% physical strength advantage over women. 

What would happen?

Naomi Alderman’s The Power meets Monty Python’s “Hell’s Grannies”

A man struts and huffs and puffs and expands like a blowfish, but all the old women close their eyes.  Deny him the female gaze.  Refuse to be a witness to his Almighty Greatness, let alone a cheerleader. 

And not only does he deflate, he disappears in a puff of, well, nothingness.  Existential …

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