I haven’t misunderstood anything.
Just because a woman ‘role plays’ misogyny, doesn’t mean it wasn’t misogyny. Just because a woman is turned on by misogynistic behaviour, doesn’t mean it isn’t misogyny. Women are formed and shaped by misogynistic cultures just as men are.
Just because there were women who campaigned against women having the vote, didn’t mean that those women weren’t performing and enabling misogyny.
And that point doesn’t stop being true just because it’s in the bedroom.
Things don’t become okay, they don’t stop being misogynistic just because someone gets an orgasm out of it.
Just like racism doesn’t stop being racism because someone has decided to call it ‘race play’ and enacts it for sexual kicks.
It’s not about deciding what does or doesn’t turn another woman on, it is about recognizing that cultural misogyny is informing that. None of us came out of the womb programmed to be turned on by being called ‘ a dirty slut ‘ or being turned on by being strangled or slapped in the face. Cultural misogyny has created that.
Racism creates race ‘play’, not innate desire.
Misogyny creates misogynistic ‘play’ not innate desire.