{"id":192,"date":"2016-08-18T15:10:14","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T15:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/?p=192"},"modified":"2016-08-18T16:45:59","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T16:45:59","slug":"what-millennials-need-to-know-about-misogyny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/what-millennials-need-to-know-about-misogyny\/","title":{"rendered":"What Millennials Need to Know About Misogyny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hillary-cunt-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-194\" src=\"http:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hillary-cunt-1-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"hillary cunt\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hillary-cunt-1-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/hillary-cunt-1.jpg 652w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Some of my favorite people are Millennials. I watch them with joy and amazement that many of the things I have fought for over the years are as natural as breath for them.<\/p>\n<p>Young women and men assume equality in relationships, academics, sports, career paths, and the political milieu. Most are open to an understanding of multiple types of sexualities and gender identifications. But they often know little about struggles of my generation (I am now a grandmother) to bring those things to fruition\u00a0or how tenuous those strides may be.<\/p>\n<p>We are about to elect (if all goes well!) our first woman president and you are about to see the fecal material of a sexist nation hit a proverbial and huge fan.\u00a0Young men and women will be surprised and dismayed to experience the vitriol the older generation understands to exist barely below the surface. Most gay men, trans-women and rape victims have an acute awareness of the vehement devaluing and violence still focused against women, but not the general population of millennials.<\/p>\n<p>Most misogyny experienced by millennials is either so subtle as to go unobserved or so blatantly hateful that it is seen as an anomaly. <em>Well hang onto your baseball caps and dew rags because we are about to take a ride on an out of control misogyny bus<\/em>. We experienced a colossal (and to many, surprising) rise in racism after the election of President Obama. Many more will be blindsided by the virulent form of anti-woman hate speech about to erupt. I anticipate a kind of disrespect and hatred even greater than Obama experienced because sexism exists in every culture in our nation to greater and lesser degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Get used to hearing \u2018cunt\u2019, \u2018bitch\u2019, \u2018castrating bitch\u2019, \u2018dyke\u2019, \u2018bull dagger\u2019 and a plethora of epithets that demean Ms. Clinton and refer to her as a sexual object \u2013 either hypersexual, non-sexual, or subversively sexual, all as ways of dismissing her authority and power. They will harangue her with demeaning and abusive sexual threats. And know this: they will not be\u00a0talking just about Hillary Clinton. They will be talking about <em>all of us<\/em> whether they call our name or not.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my favorite people are Millennials. I watch them with joy and amazement that many of the things I have fought for over the years are as natural as breath for them. Young women and men assume equality in relationships, academics, sports, career paths, and the political milieu. Most are open to an understanding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/what-millennials-need-to-know-about-misogyny\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What Millennials Need to Know About Misogyny<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,8,23,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions\/197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/connietuttle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}