I'm trying to figure out why these things should bother me more than, say, listening to the lyrics of Lying Is the Most Fun... or I Write Sins Not Tragedies, songs that basically call the women Ryan Ross wrote them about whores.
Shouldn't modern misogyny bother me more than decade-old sexism?
It may be that the difference you seek is already contained in your words: the conscious misogyny of an individual artist (or perhaps even the targeted specific hatred of individual women by an individual) is less bothersome than the unexamined sexism of an entire culture. Seems to me hegemony's more bothersome than an individual person-in-pain-and-angry-about-it, on the misogyny/sexism scale.
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Date: 2007-11-26 10:33 pm (UTC)Shouldn't modern misogyny bother me more than decade-old sexism?
It may be that the difference you seek is already contained in your words: the conscious misogyny of an individual artist (or perhaps even the targeted specific hatred of individual women by an individual) is less bothersome than the unexamined sexism of an entire culture. Seems to me hegemony's more bothersome than an individual person-in-pain-and-angry-about-it, on the misogyny/sexism scale.