Dr Peter Jakob - Feb 7 -​ 5 min read

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Misogyny, Epstein and NVR

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What’s NVR got to do with misogyny? After all, it’s all about parenting, a parent-coaching approach, isn’t it?

 

The scandal around prominent, wealthy and powerful people who were friends with Jeffrey Epstein throws a light on how sexual violence, financial and political power come to be associated. In Shakespeare’s Hamlet we hear “Something is rotten in the State of Denmark”… Notwithstanding the remarkable gains women and girls have been making since the early years of the past century, society remains saturated with patriarchal discourses and gender inequality, with moral corruption. Just as racism grew to justify slavery, colonial expansion, ethnic cleansing and genocide, misogyny gives license to the many injustices women are exposed to. The rot is in the air, all around us and internalized in us, baked into language, etched into our daily practices. Often, misogynistic discourses construct the way we see and construct reality not only in what they communicate, but also what they omit . . .

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