Why am i misogynistic

How is it different from sexism? And why does the male-dominated status quo seem to persist? A new book by Cornell philosophy professor Kate Manne has answers. I always thought of misogyny as an ideology: a body of ideas that exists to justify social relations. But you argue that this is sexism, and that misogyny is better understood as a moral manifestation of sexist ideology. Yeah, that's really well put.

One way of looking at it is we have these patriarchal social structures, bastions of male privilege where a dominant man might feel entitled to and often receive feminine care and attention from women. I think of misogyny and sexism as working hand-in-hand to uphold those social relations. Misogyny, the way you define it, is something we practice almost unconsciously. They want to be socially and morally superior to the women they target.

But women only appear that way because we expect them to be otherwise, to be passive. I wanted to know how we police women, how we keep them in their place, in their designated lane. But we have to be aware of the unconscious biases and cultural norms that sustain all of this. Misogyny is the law enforcement branch of patriarchy. If you think about someone like Donald Trump claiming he's the law enforcement president, I think that's right.

Did the election of Donald Trump, an open misogynist, change your thinking in any way? No, it actually crystallized it. I just saw it coming the whole way through.

Some perpetrators may even see it as a badge of honour. A former chairwoman of the National Police Chiefs' Council, Sara Thornton, argued police forces were too "stretched" as it was, telling a conference in "We just do not have the resources to do everything that is desirable and deserving. Instead, she said they needed to make a return to "core policing", adding: "I want us to solve more burglaries and bear down on violence before we make more records of incidents that are not crimes.

The Scottish government has passed a hate crime law which extends protection for vulnerable groups, but an amendment that would have included women as a protected group was defeated. The government in Edinburgh has instead set up a working group to look at whether misogynistic abuse should be a separate crime.

Speaking to BBC Breakfast from his party conference, Boris Johnson appeared to not support making misogyny a hate crime. The prime minister said there was "abundant statute" to tackle violence against women, and claimed by "widening the scope of what you ask the police to do, you will just increase the problem".

Instead, he called for police forces to "focus on the very real crimes" and "the very real feeling of injustice and betrayal that many people feel". Meanwhile, the Law Commission is carrying out a "wide-ranging review into hate crime to explore how to make current legislation more effective, and if there should be additional protective characteristics".

The Commission - which is an independent body that advises government - has already released its initial conclusions, saying that sex or gender based hostility should be added to the existing five characteristics protected in hate crime laws.

But it has not yet made its official recommendations and they are not expected to be published until the autumn. We think we want something different, but what we do is set up dramas that ensure we end up back at the default'. Worse still, Orbach and Jukes agree that the more disruptive and traumatic childhood is, the more likely it is that future behaviour will become extreme.

We have a need to return to the default settings because that is where we feel secure — in our stress and pain. We think we want something different, but what we do is set up dramas that ensure we end up back at the default. This is classless, international and transhistorical. Meanwhile, the more masculine a boy is, the more he represses his feelings about women, so the more misogynistic and abusive he is likely to be. This also works in reverse, with hyper-masculine men also more likely to be emotionally vulnerable, even helpless.

It subverts it. The cultish nature of incels is not an aberration but an extension of male psychological development. Paradoxically, these self-proclaimed losers also exhibit a kind of hyper-masculinity. The cultish nature of incels is not an aberration but an extension of male psychological development: a need to control mixed with a sense of humiliation. Damn you, Mother Nature.

Men are not victims and incels represent the worst in men: how they refuse to accept their own responsibilities and their reluctance to know themselves or admit what lives in their unconscious.

The root of this is shame and frustration, which analysts believe comes from a childhood spent feeling impotent in the shadow of the father castration anxiety and separated from the mother. Far from stopping Barry engaging with anti-women content, Facebook and Instagram appear to have promoted it to him.

By contrast, there was no anti-women content on TikTok and very little on Twitter. YouTube suggested some videos hostile to women. Facebook, which also owns Instagram, says it tries not to recommend content that breaks its rules and is improving its technology "to find and remove abuse more quickly".

YouTube says it has "strict policies" on hate and "quickly" removes content that breaks its rules. That wasn't the only thing in the experiment that struck me. Barry's main interest was originally conspiracy theories and I had expected him to be inundated with that sort of content at the start.

But he wasn't. Social media sites have come under increasing pressure not to promote misleading information about vaccines and the pandemic.

But why hasn't that happened with misogynistic content on Facebook and Instagram? The longer people stay on the platform, the more ads it sells and the more money the tech giant makes. Facebook says "protecting" its community is "more important than maximising profits".

It has announced new measures to tackle sexualised hate targeting journalists, politicians and celebrities on its sites. They found that female reality TV contestants are disproportionately targeted on social media with abuse frequently rooted in misogyny and combined with racism. While the contestants received mostly positive messages, fashion blogger Kaz Kamwi, 26, and year-old medical student Priya Gopaldas, told Panorama they also got some disturbing hate-filled messages.

When you look at me, I am a dark skinned black woman, that's the first thing you see," says Kaz. Ellen Judson, who led the research for Demos and focuses on social media policy, says reality TV is a great place to start looking at online hate because the genre is so popular with people expressing who they like or don't like. Demos looked at more than 90, online messages about Love Island and Married at First Sight contestants:.

Whereas what we saw with men was them being attacked for seemingly not being masculine enough - for being too weak," says Judson. I wanted to see what impact this kind of abuse is having, so I spoke to politicians and frontline doctors who use social media to do their jobs. Like me they don't mind being criticised but they do mind when it gets personal.

Former leader of the Scottish Conservatives Ruth Davidson fears that abuse targeting women online could turn back the clock when it comes to equality offline. There's also concern that online abuse could lead to real world harm.

She's been treating Covid patients during the pandemic and sees using social media as an extension of her duty as a doctor. That means she has frequently posted warnings about the impact of coronavirus - and encouraged her followers to have a Covid vaccine. It's those tweets in particular that often sparked a wave of misogynistic hate from anti-vaccine activists, not dissimilar to the accounts sending me hate.

But the volume of abuse is much less. If you're a female doctor, it'll be much more visceral, and it will target you as a woman. I've been taking part in a major piece of research for the UN's cultural agency Unesco - which looks at the impact of online hate.

Lead researcher Julie Posetti and her team asked more than women, journalists like me, about their experiences of online hate. They then studied some of the accounts, including mine and that of Nobel Peace Prize winner, Maria Ressa. She's an investigative journalist from the Philippines who gets lots of online abuse and says she wears a bullet-proof vest because she fears being attacked. Twenty per cent of women who responded to the UN's survey, in collaboration with the International Center for Journalists ICFJ , said they had already experienced attacks in real-life, including stalking and physical assault.

I'm especially worried about some of the hate I receive online, including from a man who appears to have a prior conviction for stalking women. But I've been left frustrated at the police response.