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[quote=Anonymous]I do think there’s a lot to be said about ingrained misogyny in women. At 40, I am just now dismantling my own. I realize my lifelong desire to be good at sports, enjoying male companionship more than female, criticism of girlie things, and so forth stems from self hatred and feelings of worthlessness as a female that were ingrained in me by society from a young age. It was like a god damned epiphany when Clinton lost and it came down on me like the weight of a mountain that, yes, society really does think women are worthless. So worthless, in fact, that we elected a rapist over an intelligent, qualified woman. We are up in arms about racism (as we should be), over people getting killed by police. How many women are killed by men annually? Sexism is as constant and pernicious as racism... yet, yet... here we are. Most of us women hold so many sexist beliefs. Including the one that says we’re at war with each other.

Boys are expected to find “girl things” lame and are generally shamed for being into them. Girls are applauded by boys and men and women for being into “boy things”. (Never mind that the labeling is all wrong for so many of the things.) This expands into women thinking that “non career women”, even for a few years, are lame. That women who aren’t playing the man’s game are less than and weak.

It is all such a convenient way for us to nitpick the insignificant things and remain blind to how the entire system is set up to screw us out of our human rights.[/quote]

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