What is misogyny and how to recognize it?

Misogyny, Definition: female name. Aversion to women or lack of confidence in them. Misogyny includes discrimination, denigration, and violence against women.

It is important to recognize data on misogyny because initially it was associated with extreme cases or marked notoriety. However, let us note that in its very definition “lack of confidence” is included. That is any indication that suggests that because of being a woman a person could not or would have less chance of prospering or resolving any situation that may arise.

It is not necessary then to go to extremes to observe it in everyday life. And what would be the use of acknowledging it? It is extremely important to be able to intervene in cases where it is necessary and help disarm discourses or judgments that are socially installed and that are often not even recognized as aggressive or problematic.

Misogyny intervenes whenever a man considers that he can resolve the matter in question more effectively than a woman, solely because of this gender difference. This occurs fundamentally in areas that are culturally considered to be the domain of man: such as finances, the competitive world of work, or, among many other examples, driving a car. The popular gesture of discrimination towards a woman who drives stems from a core idea that is misogynistic.

Judgment about a woman's love or sex life is also misogynistic. Disqualifying comments are still heard today in relation to love choices and/or around female sexuality. The enjoyment of women continues to be judged and censored both by men and by many women.

By associating Misogyny with the common idea of ​​Hate for women, it is often seen framed in more extreme situations. And, although unfortunately every day we are in contact with news that shows us that this hatred and extreme violence do not stop manifesting themselves, there are countless times that misogynistic comments and speeches pass us by sometimes without realizing it.

Making misogyny visible in its most subtle mechanisms is essential to be able to disarm it in our closest environment. The prejudice of «not being able» «or «not being able to do it just like a man» abounds massively in day-to-day situations.

Many of these behaviors respond to that discourse that points to man as a being that should be capable of doing and solving everything. The patriarchal discourse places the man in a position of power, and this implies an assumption that no one can or should be able to do better than him. This identity stamp of «Superhero» is responsible for male frustration every time something does not turn out as planned and is at the origin of a large number of aggressive projections towards the figure of women.

Misogyny is reducing a woman to her physical characteristics, underestimating her abilities and/or subsuming them to physical or sexual issues, reducing them in any way to a mere product for male consumption, excluding them from certain areas or conversations just because they are women, pretending that they focus exclusively on certain tasks to the detriment of others, etc.

Misogyny is woven into our social network on a daily basis. It is everyone's job to make it visible and contribute to change that.

 

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