Women Beware Women

[poliphilo]

I'm at the doctors- and what have they got in the waiting room? Women's magazines- the cheap ones- with articles entitled "I married my abuser" and "my new vagina" and picture features that gloat over the weight gain and fashion disasters of female celebs. My heart sinks.

Porn degrades women? Maybe (I'd be prepared to debate that one) but not half as much as these women's magazines do. Here every unsuccessful woman is a dozy cow who has let herself be exploited by men and every successful woman is a stuck up bitch just asking to be pulled back down into the ditch where she belongs. "God, but she looks fat in that!"

Misogyny sells. And the most avid consumers of it are women.

Comments

[beentothemoon.livejournal.com]

Only physically, I think women are much more attuned to pain, thus are more able to inflict it psychologically. A woman's raised eyebrow can devastate as much as a man's raised hand, in my experience.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Psychological violence is as horrible as physical violence? It's an interesting proposition. And one that goes against the assumptions of our society- but not I suppose of other societies. People in the Middle Ages, for example, would have held it far worse to kill the soul than to kill the body. Hmm. I shall go to bed thinking about this....