Hahahahaha!

Crikey.

And he complains about non British people being unable to speak adequate English.

And he is the Lord Chancellor
That lead me to read up on the history of misogyny given the root of the word is Greek

Wowser.

Aristotle believed women were inferior and described them as (physically) incomplete - "deformed males". Who knew!

That courage in men lies in commanding, in women obeying

Nice one
In his work “Politics”, he states that the male is by nature superior and the female inferior, the male ruler and the female subject.

Women⬇️
Old Ari goes on

It seems women are

“more jealous, more querulous, more apt to scold and to strike... more prone to despondency and less hopeful ... more void of shame or self-respect, more false of speech, more deceptive, of more retentive memory”

Yeah. We remember Ari!
He was not alone. But Cicero considered misogyny to be caused by gynophobia, a fear of women.

“It is the same with other diseases; as the desire of glory, a passion for women, to which the Greeks give the name of philogyneia:..”
He goes on “…and thus all other diseases and sicknesses are generated. But those feelings which are the contrary of these are supposed to have fear for their foundation”

ALL OTHER DISEASES⁉️
What about a bit of L Ron Hubbard and Scientology?

“A society in which women are taught anything but the management of a family, the care of men, and the creation of the future generation is a society which is on its way out.”
YOU HEAR HIM GIRLS?

WE are the reason society is on the way out.

Blinks in Johnson
In the same book, he also wrote:

“The historian can peg the point where a society begins its sharpest decline at the instant when women begin to take part, on an equal footing with men, in political and business affairs…
“…since this means that the men are decadent and the women are no longer women. This is not a sermon on the role or position of women; it is a statement of bald and basic fact.”

WE’RE NO LONGER WOMEN‼️
Well. I never knew that.

So grateful for these wise explanations why we are to blame for everything.

Blinks even harder in Johnson
But the French and German philosophers will come to our rescue, surely?

Rousseau? Schopenhauer

Oh.
ROUSSEAU

“Always justify the burdens you impose upon girls but impose them anyway... . They must be thwarted from an early age... . They must be exercised to constraint, so that it costs them nothing to stifle all their fantasies to submit them to the will of others."
Other quotes suggest we should be "closed up in their houses", "must receive the decisions of fathers and husbands like that of the church"

Blinks and blinks and BLINKS in Johnson
As for Schopenhauer

“women's only role in nature is to further the species through childbirth and hence is equipped with the power to seduce and "capture" men.”
He goes on to state that women's cheerfulness is chaotic and disruptive which is why it is crucial to exercise obedience to those with rationality. For her to function beyond her rational subjugator is a threat against men as well as other women
Schopenhauer also thought women's cheerfulness is an expression of her lack of morality and incapability to understand abstract or objective meaning such as art.

WIPE THAT SMILE OF YOUR FACE, GIRLS. NO grinning. NO laughing AND NO DAMN CHEERFULNESS
Maybe Nietzsche or Hegel spoke up for us?

The WHIP, Nietzsche?! “You are going to women? Do not forget the whip”

Forget thinking we are profound. “Women are not even shallow”
Hegel? Come ON Hegel!

“Women are capable of education, but they are not made for activities which demand a universal faculty such as the more advanced sciences, philosophy and certain forms of artistic production.”

Hear that @chrischirp @SarahDRasmussen @trishgreenhalgh
.. “Women regulate their actions not by the demands of universality, but by arbitrary inclinations and opinions.”

Dear me.

Who knew.

“Arbitrary inclinations and opinions”

Rereads this whole thread.

That’s WOMEN who have arbitrary inclinations & opinions⁉️‼️
“Misandry” is the “other” word. RAAB omitted…also Greek in origin (/mɪˈsændri/) : the hatred of, contempt for, or prejudice against men or boys in general.

Not with the same documented “philosophical” history as misogyny.
It seems fitting to finish this thread with this “Dear Marge” problem page.

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