The Existence of Misogyny in Our Society

Misogyny is the hatred towards women. The findings were about the role that misogyny plays in our society. What we expected to find is how society forces individuals to maintain various gender roles, which supports the inequalities between the two genders. We utilized the feminist theory to advance our research on misogyny. We therefore, expected to find women in modern society, being expected to possess innate insights on nurturing and raising children, while the husbands are expected to be the breadwinners in the family setting. Society is expected to scrutinize men and women in different manners, whereby, men are favored, and women are judged due to society's conception on the gender and the gender norms. Our findings did illustrate the existence of misogyny in our society. This is especially considering how the last general election actually went down. The election was a race between individuals of different genders, and the hatred towards the female candidate is what led to the election of the current president.

Another concept that we expected to find is the double standard. This is whereby, men have more, and also acted on more sexual urges than women. Society has for a long time, been promoting the male body over that of a female, which gives the male a sense of power over the female. We expected to find such a belief poisoning other areas of living such as the workplace. This double standard is expected to illustrate how women are held back due to their gender. In our findings, we found out that our new twenty-first-century society, has created this image of instilling equality of men and women. We are taught to believe that anything a man can do; a woman can do as well. Though physically and mentally this is true, those who instill these beliefs regretted to inform us that, just because you can accomplish the same task as a man or a woman, does not mean that you won't be criticized for it, or even prosecuted for it. When it comes to sex, men are expected to be these big sex symbols that the more sex partners they have, the more popular they are likely to be. In the media, the modern woman is struggling to be seen as sexy. The modern media has two definitions of men, which is the good-looking man with a well-built body, or a dumb fat and bald looking man. However, such a distinction hasn't been made with women. They struggle to look sexual as seen in the advertisements. Anything that is displayed in the public, contains the capability of stereotyping the two genders.

We expected to find evidence that shows women being mistreated and society ignoring the mistreatment, choosing to believe that it is tolerable behavior. Our findings portray that Rape culture is a trend in society that encourages misogyny and influences politics, pop culture, and even children. Breaking down the walls of rape culture is something that people are working to fix in society. Rape culture can begin with misogynistic attitudes and influences early in children's lives; therefore, parents should educate them about misogyny's origins, be responsible for what children view in the media, explain objectification to them, differentiate between misogyny and sexism, and ensure that young men aren't pressured by other young men to engage in misogynistic behavior toward women.

Society needs to step up, if the mistreatment towards women is to end. Strong policies and punishments towards anyone promoting any kind of mistreatments, should be put into place, otherwise women will continue holding a lesser place in society.