Re: [-empyre-] misogyny

["G.H. Hovagimyan" <ghh@thing.net>]

gh replies:

What happens with television and sensationalism is that it plays to  
the limbic gland. If I were to guess at why I'd say that all the top  
corporate businessmen live in constant fuck or fight stimulation.   
What they produce with advertising reflects the state of their minds.

Being powerless over women is a major fear of men. This is probably  
amplified by those with larger ambitions, to whit the greater the  
ambition, the greater the fear of powerlessness.

Discussing the content of media lacks a certain depth of  
understanding. I would ask why this happens in industrialized  
"liberal" nations. I also wonder what the statistical incidences are  
of violence towards women are in traditional societies such as Muslim  
cultures or Amish society for that matter. Is it more is it less is  
it the same?

The main issue still goes back to a male sense of being at the mercy  
of women for a number of things such as procreation but also crating  
a family and in a deeper sense the idea of kinship, clans and identity.


On Oct 22, 2006, at 4:54 AM, blakkbyrd wrote:

> > We have a problem. Staggering amounts of violence are unleashed on
> > women every day, and there is no escaping the fact that in the most
> > sensational stories, large segments of the population are titillated
> > by that violence.