The objectification of the female body is an effective form of dehumanization. Women’s sexuality is exploited and suppressed at the same time. Admired and reviled, chased and judged, praised and ridiculed. This oppressive societal schizophrenia is mirrored in every woman’s soul. Western philosophers who have shaped our collective thinking – Aristotle, Socrates, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Darwin, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche – compared women to animals, incapable of rational thought, devoid of intelligence. These men are still revered to this day.
[don’t] look at me by Marinka Masséus – Darwin believed children and women had smaller brains and therefore led more by instinct and less by reason. According to him, the child, the female, and the senile had similar mental traits. That the female is similar in intellectual capacity and personality traits to infants while drawing conclusion that women are closely related to lower animals.
[don’t] look at me by Marinka Masséus – Misogyny is of all cultures and of all times. It’s a foundation in all major creation mythology. In the bible – Eve unleashing evil onto the world – in Greek mythology -Zeus punishing human kind by creating Pandora, the first woman (or evil thing for their delight) who, yet again, unleashes evil into the world.
