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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.