Male violence against women partly stems from resentment of their own bodily arousal
Evidence
We think that widespread patterns of violence against women may well be partially rooted in men’s sexual ambivalence; the conflict between lust and the need to deny animality makes men uncomfortable with their own sexual arousal. Because men find females sexually alluring, they blame women for their own lustful urges, derogating and abusing them for reminding them of their own corporeal nature. — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 609
Categorization
- DEEPTHINKING: A paradigm-shifting reframe of gendered violence: not mere dominance but a death-anxiety defense mechanism where men punish women for exposing their own animality.
- XREF: connects to: Female intactness is mythically imagined as a threatening mana that ruins male vigor — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 342; The male sex organ confronts man with his own imprisoned passivity. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 353; Attitudes toward women’s flesh track how seriously men take their own death and destiny. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 364 (+7 more)
Related
- Violence defends male subjectivity against being objectified by others (similarity 0.86)
- Death and sex reminders make men lenient toward male violence against women (similarity 0.84)
- Attitudes toward women’s flesh track how seriously men take their own death and destiny. (similarity 0.82)
- Female intactness is mythically imagined as a threatening mana that ruins male vigor (similarity 0.82)
- The male sex organ confronts man with his own imprisoned passivity. (similarity 0.81)
- Male hatred of women often masks a deeper hatred of maternal origin and embodiment (similarity 0.80)
- Sexual violence expresses a cultural ideology of male dominance (similarity 0.79)
- Mortality reminders make men denigrate sexually provocative women (similarity 0.79)
- Resentment toward the masculine universe is the necessary product of dependence (similarity 0.78)
- Erotic combat between the sexes is really each person fighting their own repudiated self (similarity 0.78)