As Adrienne Rich argued in 1980, “Profound skepticism, caution, and righteous paranoia about men may indeed be part of any healthy woman’s response to the woman-hatred embedded in male-dominated culture.” But Rich also highlighted that because misogyny is so profoundly normalized, many women, even feminist women, “fail to identify it until it takes, in their own lives, some permanently unmistakable and shattering form.”30 The normalization of misogyny, and women’s sense that although straight men are often unlikable and/or abusive, women must endure them anyway (because how else are women
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Which lesbian among us has not been accused of being a "man-hater" for simply pointing out something inappropriate a man said or did to his girlfriend or wife?
