By Lenora Thompson, PsychCentral, February 8, 2020
Misogyny: It’s a nasty topic. A yucky subject I’ve tried for four years to write about…but it just wouldn’t gel. But it’s taken me even longer, four decades to be exact, to recognize misogyny in general and how it affected my life in particular.
For the purposes of this article, I’m going to define misogyny narrowly, based on how I experienced it. To me, misogyny is using a woman’s gender against her. To use her sex to define her as foolish and in need of being controlled and to foment her fear of being raped to control her, limit her, scare her, influence her, denigrate her, spy on her, keep her dependent, etc. That’s what I experienced.
Anyone can be a misogynist. Heck! Some women are misogynists. Just because you’re a narcissist does not mean you’re automatically a misogynist. And just because you’re a misogynist, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a narcissist. But in my personal experience, the two went hand-in-hand.
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