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As a child, I would hear of female prejudice and I did not seem to understand either because I
had not experienced it or because there is a certain age that is not directly affected by female
prejudice. As time goes by my comprehension of gender discrimination and female misogyny is
broadened and I begin to realize that gender discrimination has been in existent for ages. This
has been lent credence by the real-life instances of patriarchy and favouritism of male in regards
to employment opportunities, family, politics, education, and religion. Thus serving as evidence
that ,there have been more prominent instances of mistreatment of the female. Though there has
been semblance reduction in gender stereotyping and female prejudice according to several
publications, my experience serves me with facts that this is an issue and a problem that is not
going to end soon.
In another perspective, I am inclined to believe that misogyny is a battle between male
and female that leads to contempt, dislike stereotyping or prejudice of women and ultimately
leads to gender discrimination. Retrospectively men have held a perception that women are
weaklings and do not merit having a position higher than theirs or playing certain roles that are
considered to be for a male ( Mun, 2017 ).
The role of women is confined into offering sexual pleasure to the male counterparts as well as
playing a subordinate role to the male. In my view, the society has to be blamed for misogyny
and this is according to my personal experience.
In my upbringing as a young girl I would be given chores and duties that were meant to orientate
me towards my societal perceived roles and in a way, we would not be allowed to do certain
duties or behave in a certain way because they go against the conventions of the society.
On the surface, this convention according to the society is meant to instill order, discipline, and
justice as the society emphasizes on morality. In this line, anyone who deviates from this
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convention is viewed as immoral and is condemned and punished. According to my experience, I
developed a different view of the societal order views and perception. One the conventions are
more of a patriarchy that creation of order and tend to make men more superior than women. In
this view, to a worrying extent, the actions and behaviors are more defined unfairly as compared
to men. This means that the women should be questioned for their actions and behaviors and
whatever is approved by the society inculcates the happiness of men not considering how women
feel
Subsequently, this has cultivated disrespect, contempt prejudice and stereotyping of the
female gender. Prominently the society has reared and fostered the ingrained misogyny and it
will take the same society to uproot it.
Personally, this is a concerning subject to me as I have been a victim of misogyny in several
instances, and it irritates to individuals being treated with contempt because of gender (Fairchild,
2015).
In my honest opinion, there ought to be equal treatment for both the genders regardless of how
myopically and retrospectively the society views the gender roles and morality. In more
pronounced instances, the female has proven to be better than the male counterparts in education
and even career-wise; thus the stereotyping of women as weaklings and cannot play certain roles
is archaic and backward and should be treated with contempt itself (Hinman, 2017).
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Sadly gender discrimination, prejudice and stereotyping have killed so many younger ladies
dreams on the basis that they are not equal to the task that they have stood up for and to a greater
extent has denied the state of qualified personnel that might have been offered by the misjudged
female. The society has created the notion that certain position even in the division of labor has
to be filled by male and if not male no one else. In case such roles are filled with a female it
raises eyebrows and in the worst case scenario they get contemptuous treatment from the male
counterparts (Rubin, 2016).
In addition, misogyny has promoted domestic violence that has caused women
unbearable pain. This is further coupled up with the perception that the female is destined to
leave their homes and get married give the society grounds that the male with grows up to offer a
continuation of a particular lineage. This perception explains the genesis of the female gender
contempt in another angle too. This notion is also applicable in the illustration of the
circumstances under which the female gender is not given much emphasis in comparison to the
male gender.
In my view, misogyny is the creation of the society and it has killed dreams of female gender and
caused more harm than good. The society should begin accepting that this was a mistake and it
should be debunked since a number of the parameters of the convention that brought misogyny
into existence are based on a fallacy.

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Reference
Mun, E. (2017). Too Few Women at the Top: The Persistence of Inequality in Japan.
Fairchild, K. (2015). Feminism is Now: Fighting Modern Misogyny and the Myth of the
Post-Feminist Era.
Hinman, P. (2017). # MeToo: End the system that perpetuates misogyny. Green Left Weekly,
(1164), 28.
Rubin, J. D. (2016). # Gendertrolling: A (New) Virtual Iteration of Everyday Misogyny.

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prejudice. As time goes by my comprehension of gender discrimination and female misogyny is

going to end soon.

In another perspective, I am inclined to believe that misogyny is a battle between male

considered to be for a male ( Mun, 2017 ).

and this is according to my personal experience.

convention is viewed as immoral and is condemned and punished. According to my experience, I

will take the same society to uproot it.

Personally, this is a concerning subject to me as I have been a victim of misogyny in several

counterparts (Rubin, 2016).

into existence are based on a fallacy.

Rubin, J. D. (2016). # Gendertrolling: A (New) Virtual Iteration of Everyday Misogyny.

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