Transgender Ideology Isn't About Dignity. It's Warmed Over Misogyny | Opinion
Misogyny: the World's Oldest Prejudice. It's a sweeping look at how hatred and fear of women has been a part of nearly every society in human history.
The need to control women's sexuality, women's voices and women's power have been a feature of societies from Victorian England to Afghanistan under the Taliban to ancient Greece and Rome. "What history teaches us about misogyny can be summed up in four words: pervasive, persistent, pernicious and protean," my father wrote in 2006, in his last work before he died.I have to admit that when he wrote it, I didn't understand the urgency of the subject.
Back then, I was certain that we were past the worst of the crimes against women, at least in the West.Yet lately, my father's words about the shapeshifting nature of misogyny have been ringing in my ears.
Some aspects of the transgender ideology taking over the liberal establishment are all too reminiscent of the kinds of misogyny my father so aptly pointed out.
