Idealizing women can itself breed misogyny through backlash.
Evidence
Misogyny can also develop as a result of the idealization with which men have glorified women as mistresses, wives, and mothers. This has led to a natural reaction, a desire to tear down what has been raised unduly high. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 93
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Mothers can manipulate authority figures to ignore abuse. — Dave Pelzer, A Child Called ‘It’, 108; Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1352; Refusing to acknowledge a woman’s own ethical framing paradoxically strengthens the misogyny feminists oppose — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 2242
Related
- Women become immoral by embodying an inhuman ideal imposed on them. (similarity 0.81)
- The American public idealized black women embracing roles they rejected (similarity 0.80)