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'''Misogyny''' is the ''the enforcement of strict gender roles and expectations on girls and women that directs results in violence, active hostility and/or opposition towards those who do not identify, present, or express themselves as masculine and/or men.'' - The Anti-Oppression Network, 
'''Misogyny''' is the ''the enforcement of strict gender roles and expectations on girls and women that directly results in violence, active hostility and/or opposition towards those who do not identify, present, or express themselves as masculine and/or men.'' - The Anti-Oppression Network, adapted by Michelle Xie  <ref>https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I</ref>
 
 
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== Examples of misogyny  <ref>https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/community_and_living/community_safety__crime_preve/domestic_violence/Tackling-misogyny.aspx#:~:text=Examples%20of%20internalised%20misogyny%3A,is%20to%20be%20a%20mother.</ref>    ==
 
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'''Sexual standards'''
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*Women’s sexual behaviour is judged differently from men’s sexual behaviour.
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'''Emotional standards'''
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*i.e. The belief that women are 'too emotional' to be good leaders.
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'''Gender roles'''
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*i.e. the belief that a woman’s main purpose is to be a mother.
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*I.e. If she wasn’t so drunk, he wouldn’t have raped her
*I.e. she shouldn’t have led him on.
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Misogyny is the the enforcement of strict gender roles and expectations on girls and women that directly results in violence, active hostility and/or opposition towards those who do not identify, present, or express themselves as masculine and/or men. - The Anti-Oppression Network, adapted by Michelle Xie [1]



Examples of misogyny [2]

Sexual standards

  • Women’s sexual behaviour is judged differently from men’s sexual behaviour.

Emotional standards

  • i.e. The belief that women are 'too emotional' to be good leaders.

Gender roles

  • i.e. the belief that a woman’s main purpose is to be a mother.
Victim blaming in the context of assault
  • I.e. If she wasn’t so drunk, he wouldn’t have raped her
  • I.e. she shouldn’t have led him on.



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  1. ↑ https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1HC35f2kDXc8cgLYWc9_oUZmINoTfP3_I
  2. ↑ https://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/lgnl/community_and_living/community_safety__crime_preve/domestic_violence/Tackling-misogyny.aspx#:~:text=Examples%20of%20internalised%20misogyny%3A,is%20to%20be%20a%20mother.
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