reflection

Sometimes it can be very useful indeed to refresh one's memory as to how misogyny tends to function. Otherwise, one can doubt one's original perceptions.

Yesterday, I engaged with two misogynists who had no idea they were misogynists. One of the cases was more complicated than the other. The simpler case proved to be most instructive, because it clarified for me that much misogyny originates with the type of male eros that 'needs' an external source of emotion in order to feel gratified. This is why the formula that women are emotional and men are rational is so hard to move. Empirical evidence points otherwise in all sorts of ways, but nonetheless a certain kind of male's drive to feel that his intelligence ought to be reflected in an emotional pool, deemed to be "woman", is very strong and thoroughly blinding.