Недобеременность

С точки зрения теории страха мизогиния - несколько иное явление, чем расизм. Во-первых, речь идёт не о меньшинстве. Эталонные расисты ненавидят расовые меньшинства и желают в идеале от них избавиться. Эталонные мизогинисты обожают женщин - подобно бывшему президенту, который в свое время предлагал сделать телевизионную передачу "Donald Trump Presents the Most Beautiful Women in the World". Если меньшинства представляются конкурентами в борьбе за жизненные блага, то женщины выполняют роль источника этих благ. Общее в обоих случаях - иерархическое отношение. Чтобы не стать триггерами страха, женщины в качестве объектов должны знать своё место, не отказывать в предоставлении своих услуг и избегать инсубординации. Некоторые из них соглашаются на такую роль добровольно, убегая от собственных страхов.

Фрейд несколько перегибал палку, но многое явно закладывается в раннем детстве. Разъясняет психиатр Джастин Франк, автор книжки “Trump on a couch”:

For Frank, the dynamic between infant and mother has a profound influence on a person’s psychological outlook and health. Trump’s mother was Mary Anne MacLeod, who arrived in New York from the Outer Hebridean island of Lewis in 1930. After six years as a domestic worker and nanny, she married the property developer Fred Trump and they had five children.
The otherwise garrulous president has said little about his mother. Notably, for his first few months in the Oval Office, the only photo behind his desk was of his father. His mother was added later. Yet, Frank points out, 72-year-old Trump’s gravity-defying hair is a very deliberate homage to his mum’s.
“The fact that he tries to get us to feel his anxiety and he externalises responsibility makes me feel that, as a young child, he did not feel contained or held by his mother or other caretakers,” he says. “He didn’t have a strong maternal force in his life.
“The one thing we do know biographically is that when he was two, the last child in the family was born, but when his mother went to the hospital she didn’t come home right away. She had a haemorrhage, she had four surgeries and came close to dying and there was virtually no talk about that in the family. His older siblings just went to school as if it were normal while they’re terribly worried about their mother.”
His mother’s frequent absences, Frank suggests, left Trump devoid of empathy.
“One of the things that you do when you’re feeling ignored and abandoned in some way,” he says, “is develop contempt for that part of yourself. You have the hatred of your own weakness and you then become a bully and make other people feel weak, or mock other people to make it clear that you’re the strong one and that you don’t have any needs.
“In fact, at one of his rallies recently somebody was complaining about something and he said, ‘Why don’t you go home to your mommy?’ I was struck that he must have been reading my book.”
Frank adds: “That’s why I think some of his relationships with women are not just based on sex. It had to do with a real contempt for women’s boundaries and autonomy because he’s so angry and so bereft and I think that’s so deeply unconscious.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/29/trump-on-the-couch-justin-frank



В реакционной политике легче прослеживать метки расизма, но скрытая за такой политикой мизогиния - более мощная движущая сила.

Идею “supply-side economics” с одновременным урезанием налогов на богатых и социальной помощи бедным изначально продвигали «прометеи» Джордж Гилдер и Чарльз Мюррей, которых помимо всего прочего роднило отношение к женщинам.

"The idea that young men are civilized by women and marriage" gained currency in the Reagan era, when George Gilder published his screed against feminism, "Sexual Suicide." Gilder argued that men are barbarians unless civilized by marriage, and by demanding sexual and economic freedom, feminists were denying women's crucial civilizing function – and destroying the world as we know it.
Of course the sober Kristof didn't mention the crazy Gilder in his column, but Murray did in his book, approvingly. "Gilder saw disaster looming as women stopped performing this function, a position derided as the worst kind of patriarchal sexism," Murray noted. "But put in less vivid language, the argument is neither implausible nor inflammatory: The responsibilities of marriage induce young men to settle down, focus and get to work … George Gilder was mostly right."
Actually, George Gilder was mostly nuts.
https://www.salon.com/2012/04/03/must_women_civilize_men/

The writings of Gilder and Murray signaled a conservative renewal in welfare policy reform. Their ideas encapsulated the thinking of conservative leaders like Reagan and Thatcher, and encouraged further reforms based on forceful criticisms of the existing system. Indeed, Gilder's Wealth and Poverty (1981) and Murray's Losing Ground: American Social Policy 1950-1980 (1984) are regularly described as Reaganite Bibles. Policy makers in the US and elsewhere became increasingly acquainted with critiques of welfare dependency often borrowed from the writings of these two commentators. Neither book was deeply analytical. Rather, both were confident ideological tracts that embraced Reagan's claim that welfare was the problem. not the solution.
Gilder was especially influential during the first term of the Reagan Administration, providing conservatives with a pro-free market and pro-family ideological attack on the welfare state. Murray followed where Gilder left off, concentrating his critique on welfare policy. Both scathingly dismissed liberal approaches and championed a conservative alternative' (O'Connor 1999). As Sidney Blumenthal (1986: 293) noted:
"On virtually every other desk at the OMB [Office for Management and Budget - the most powerful economic unit within the Reagan Administration] rested the latest conservative best-seller, Charles Murray's Losing Ground, the crucial text of the period, serving the same function of justification as George Gilder's Wealth and Poverty did in the first term."
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/j.1839-4655.2001.tb01100.x

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