Men's long and horrifying hatred of women
"So, few years ago, mystified and horrified by this cataclysmic erosion in women’s rights, I decided to try to get a handle on what’s going on by digging deep into western cultural history, to see what I could find about the idea that women are bad, evil, monstrous, less-than-human, dangerous, and—most important—in need of patriarchal dominance and control."
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-persistence-of-misogyny-4000-years-of-demonized-women
Gerry McGovern
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