Misogyny, cultural question?

When a woman is excluded, disqualified, discriminated against, treated with aversion, contempt, control, beatings, abuse, torture, rape, mutilation, to the point of being killed, she is the victim of misogyny. Hatred of women is the extreme manifestation of the conflict between masculine and feminine.

Misogyny is linked to culture, it is found in societies that build their values ​​from a patriarchal vision, a domain of man. Here the woman is devalued by the simple fact of being a woman and her relationship with man is based on oppression and inequality, René Jiménez Ornelas, specialist of the Institute of Social Investigations (IIS) of the UNAM.

"The misogynist thinking starts from the idea that nature dictates male superiority: the woman is weak, the man is strong; the female is silent, the man speaks; the feminine being was born for the home and the care of the children, the man to develop the mind ".

The researcher assures that those who practice misogyny find justification in the woman herself, assure that she is mistreated and controlled because she provokes it. Neither the laws against violence against women have put a stop to this atrocious prejudice that places the victim as victimizer.

The coordinator of the Social Violence Analysis Unit of the IIS , conducted a study that showed that in Mexico 9 out of 10 victims of sexual crimes are women and those who decide to report often run into authorities who hold them responsible for the crime.

"They tell them that their way of dressing provoked the aggressor or that well-behaved girls are not raped."

To protect themselves in a law enforcement system that shows its misogynistic side, women are forced to go out by day, accompanied, in crowded places and to hide their body with loose clothes, alert.

The researcher of the UNAM It also talks about the victims of intrafamily violence. "We know of women who denounce their aggressor, but are convinced to reconcile with him, which often aggravates the situation until the homicide. And in the cases in which the complaint proceeds, a minimum percentage concludes in a condemnatory action. "

The next November 25 is commemorated the International Day against Violence against Women , a call for the eradication of misogyny and all aggression against half of the world's population. This can only be possible in an equitable society, where men and women are in equal conditions to exercise rights and responsibilities.

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