Male hatred of women often masks a deeper hatred of maternal origin and embodiment

Evidence

These reproaches are not without some basis. But it is clear from the explicit criticisms that Montherlant addresses to woman-mother that what he hates in her is his own birth. He thinks he is God; he wants to be God: because he is male, because he is a “superior man,” because he is Montherlant. A god is not engendered; his body, if he has one, is a will molded in hard and disciplined muscles, not in flesh mutely inhabited by life and death; this flesh that he repudiates is perishable, contingent, and vulnerable and is his mother’s fault. “The only part of Achilles’ body that was vulnerable was the part his mother had held.” — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 454

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the envious ‘Birth of the hero’ pattern in Otto Rank’s psychoanalytic myth theory - the hero disowns his parental origin. — connects to: All human achievement depends on a repressed hatred of the mortal body; Virginity myths encode male ambivalence between fear and desire of the feminine — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 342; Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 609 (+4 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The insight that the misogynist repudiates not the woman but his own birth and contingency makes the Achilles vulnerability line land with genuine force - this is a paradigm-level compression.

Broader Connections

• Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal #expands (0.75) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 609
• Montherlant’s misogyny stems from measuring the distance between male transcendence and female immanence #exemplifies (0.73)
• Pregnancy and breastfeeding trigger derogation of women when death and animality are salient #qualifies (0.72) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 603
• Self-loathing over repressed homosexual impulses can transform into antihomosexual hostility #expands (0.72)