Misogyny

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

Examples of misogyny

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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