Let's Talk Misogyny
Do you know what should be discussed but very rarely is? The way women’s interests and skills are consistently devalued in our culture. It is everywhere; people work so hard to undermine a woman’s interests or a woman’s skill set , or a woman’s profession, or any number of things that can fall into the category of “feminine”. I don’t think it’s any secret that there are double standards when it comes to men and women; be it at work, where at best, according to CNN women make 80 cents for every dollar a man makes (and that’s at best, where white women stand – it becomes worse when we look at the even larger gender pay gap that women of colour experience), or even in how seriously they are taken in day-to-day life. We can start by looking at the seemingly inconsequential way this dismissiveness presents itself. And that starts with teenage girls and the things they like. If you were to take all the jokes, and flippant remarks about teenage girls, you would get an image of how soci