The Form of Female Misogyny, Proof That Women Can Drop Other Women

What is Internalized Misogyny? Internalized Misogyny is a term for people or groups who have dislike, prejudice and malice towards women, in short Internalized Misogyny represents hatred against women. Internalized misogyny is often confused with sexism, but they have different definitions and uses.

Most misogynists are men who feel they have gender superiority and think that women's movements for equality will interfere with the privileges of men. However, it is possible that women can also be misogynistic, even than men, women are more likely to drop other women without realizing it. Check out what women do without realizing it, including Internalized Misogyny.

Pick Me Girl

Pick me girl is often done by women to get recognition that they are cooler and 'rare' than other women. This is done in order to get the attention of men so that he can be labeled differently.

In fact, pick me girl has a correlation with Internalized Misogyny where women demean the way of dressing, make-up, or habits that are usually done by women in general as if being feminine is something that is not cool.

It feels like being recognized as a tomboy or “one of the boys” is an honor for the pick me girl, even though she unconsciously underestimates other women to get that validation.

Criticizing decisions that are not in line

Being a woman is not easy, when a woman chooses to marry and become a housewife, she is considered to be wasting her single life. When a woman does not get married, she is required to get married immediately and is afraid that she will become an 'old maid'.

When a woman marries and continues to work, she is accused of not serving her husband. Especially when women choose to be childfree, society perceives themselves as selfish parents.

Women will always be wrong in the eyes of other women so that every choice she makes will always be criticized. Instead of criticizing their decisions, why don't we give each other empathy and support for the decisions they make?

Victim Blaming

Obviously no woman wants to experience sexual violence, they experience it purely because of the perpetrator's crime, not because of inviting in tight clothes, flirting or fishing for harassment. The reason why there are many cases of harassment whose victims do not dare to report is because of the victim's insecurities including the tendency to be blamed, ironically, victim blaming is also often done by fellow women.

Women often do not empathize and blame the victim for not being able to take care of themselves, besides that because they have not experienced the same thing, women can make malicious comments that make the victim feel worthless after experiencing sexual violence. Whereas when the victim reports, it is a sign that he is looking for help and support.

Underestimating other women's abilities

Sometimes women do not want to work with other women because they think their performance will not be as good as men. Because society's stereotypes see women as dramatic and gossipy, they think that women are not ambitious enough to do a job perfectly, even because of this stereotype women can doubt the abilities of other women.

Not infrequently because of the demands and ambitions of positions, fellow women can compete with each other and bring down others in order to get the desired position.

Body shaming and bullying

More than half of women have experienced body shaming. Women are the objects most vulnerable to body shaming because they are required to always look beautiful, this body shaming behavior is increasingly widespread after social media where with fake accounts, someone easily criticizes women's body shapes offensively.

Forgetting the term "woman support woman" fellow women can also have the heart to physically attack other women because they don't match the beauty standards they want. They often forget to filter out comments that can be said and which should be kept hidden, even though fellow women should understand each other's feelings, especially the body shaming carried out by women is more painful because they feel we are not good enough with them.

Female misogyny is a big problem in our environment that must be eradicated, campaigning for support to fellow women is one way to reduce mysogyny behavior, fortunately now many women are increasingly aware of this problem even from celebrities.