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Misogynist Fathers

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slouchingtowardswaitrose · 17/08/2010 20:19

Can we talk about them?

I have one.

I don't even know how much I am prepared to share, but want to talk about how you deal with it when your parent perpetuates the kind of harm you are trying so hard to campaign against. It sucks.

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MarineIguana · 17/08/2010 21:04

Don't agree. Being my parent doesn't make my dad deserve any respect or humility from me whatsoever. He would have had to earn those by being a loving, caring and respectful parent, and he wasn't.

Does everyone owe their parents something just for being their parents? Where do you draw the line? There are some terrible parents out there.

dittany · 17/08/2010 21:04

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LadyBlaBlah · 17/08/2010 20:57

These individuals you talk of do not exist in a vacuum and do not get their opinions from the wind

A bit of humility might be in order. They are your parents

MarineIguana · 17/08/2010 20:50

But STW (love your name btw) - you're his child and you can see through him, and know that misogyny is dodgy - your DC will do the same.

Or are you talking about campaigning against it in general rather than how you bring up DC?

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slouchingtowardswaitrose · 17/08/2010 20:42

Marine, I am leaning toward not seeing mine. I have low contact as it it.

It's not really sexist comments - it's his whole way of life. Job that blatantly objectifies women, serial philanderer, etc.

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slouchingtowardswaitrose · 17/08/2010 20:41

Oh my mother is a woman-hater too.

She hates herself, masked by outrageous narcissism.

She hates other women, because she is competitive with them (especially me).

Double whammy.

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TheCrackFox · 17/08/2010 20:26

I can go one further - I have a misogynist mother. Shock

My dad is not sexist. TBH I have no idea how they got together. Confused

MarineIguana · 17/08/2010 20:24

I don't see mine (misogynist and many other flaws) but I think I would say to the DC in front of him "Actually that is not true DC, grandpa is a bit confused" and suchlike. And also matter-of-factly pull him up on it whenever he does it?