{"id":5079,"date":"2012-01-27T13:42:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=4010"},"modified":"2025-08-24T11:41:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T16:41:49","slug":"men-who-hate-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/men-who-hate-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Men who hate women"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AThe Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Dude and I went to see this movie for his birthday. I haven\u2019t been interested in reading the books because a) I\u2019m not a thriller\/mystery fan and b) haven\u2019t had time to devote to sampling genres I\u2019m not usually interested in. I\u2019m still not interested in reading the books, because I either read the book or see the movie, but not both. (I got burned in the Bonfire of the Vanities<\/em>.) I am<\/em> interested in seeing the Swedish version.<\/p>\n

mraynes at Exponent II has an excellent post<\/a> up about the exposition of misogyny in the book\/movie.<\/p>\n

Ironically, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em> phenomenon is a prime example of how our society hides from the culture of violence against women. In the original Swedish version, Stieg Larsson titled the book \u201cMan som hatar kvinnor\u201d or \u201cMen who hate women.\u201d Believing that such a title would turn readers off, American publishers renamed the book The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo<\/em>, changing the emphasis away from violent misogyny to the physical body of the (anti)heroine. This alone speaks volumes about our society. Instead of dealing with the discomfort that in fact, some men do hate women, publishers felt that the only way to sell books was to objectify and sexualize the female protagonist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Please read the whole post.<\/p>\n

This brought to mind a blog post by a Cale McCaskey, ostensibly ripping on romance novels, but really ripping on women<\/a>, and after I read mraynes\u2019s post, I realized: This is the mindset. Taken by itself, his opinion is irrelevant and he\u2019s a woman-hating man who is single and likely to remain that way.<\/p>\n

However, how many WOMEN<\/strong> have I heard over the years say the same thing with regard to romance novels and the women who read them? To hear WOMEN<\/strong> talk about the women who read romance novels, we\u2019re all a bunch of fat Peggy Bundys who, instead of earning advanced degrees, becoming Important People, tending to our hearths with the efficiency of Martha Stewart or a Mormon cupcake baker on Ritalin, or fighting against [patriarchy, white privilege, male privilege, rape culture, insert philosophy of choice].<\/p>\n

It is not rapists and abusers alone who silence and hide victims. It is we, society, in our unwillingness to stare evil in the face, name it, and confront it. Until we acknowledge culpability within our culture of violence against women, our daughters, sisters and ourselves will be at risk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some men hate women. But so do some very vocal women. Women need to look to themselves concerning their own misogyny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dude and I went to see this movie for his birthday. I haven\u2019t been interested in reading the books because a) I\u2019m not a thriller\/mystery fan and b) haven\u2019t had time to devote to sampling genres I\u2019m not usually interested in. I\u2019m still not interested in reading the books, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[562,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5079"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18530,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5079\/revisions\/18530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}