July 7, 2017

male dominate society
women get it all you see
online misogynistic sewage tsunami
virgin whore lobotomy

comment section
comes a doucheman!¹

pleasing as it would be
to blame Christianity²
too much structural
similarity
to China of antiquity

King of Chu
Concubine Yu
Eunuch Wei
Wet Nurse Kee³

[we need more] crass materialism⁴

anonymous  slut-shame hall of fame
all the bad women who are to blame
online misogynistic sewage tsunami

virgin whore lobotomy

¹ Why “doucheman” one might ask, when some estimates have half of all misogynistic online comments from women themselves? See for example, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/26/half-of-misogynistic-tweets-sent-by-women-study-finds. But online misogyny with threats and menace strongly seem to come primarily from males. See Amanda Hess, https://psmag.com/why-women-aren-t-welcome-on-the-internet-aa21fdbc8d6#.eoxhtlptd.

²  Christianity has certainly done its share to reinforce male dominance and misogyny, for example: making the “virgin Mary” an ideal type of “pure” woman, a mother without even having sex, among innumerable others. It did not create male dominance and/or misogyny, however, rather it reinforced already existing structures.

³Ancient China  was no less male dominant and misogynistic than the West, but obviously without Christianity.

⁴An explanation focused on ideas and culture (like religions) alone cannot explain the similarities between the male dominance of both the West and ancient China. A materialist explanation, however, which instead focuses on the development of property, militarization, power, and politics, can account for male dominance in both societies and is hence much more convincing.