Post by margaretsundseth on Jul 18, 2016 4:54:53 GMT
mi•sog•y•ny
noun
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
One of the first things we learn about Scout is that she does not want to be a girl. It goes hand in hand with the fact that she is a tomboy. She thinks that being called or labled as a female is one of the worst insults there is, and makes a point to avoid anything that could make someone percieve her as a girl. "I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."(4,17) 2ith the lack of positive female influence in her life, Scout has essentially been living as a boy for as long as she can remember. As this novel is set in the 1930's Scout's seemingly over-the-top interalised misogyny makes sense. The time period is well known for not being progressive. Women at this time largly did not have jobs, and if they did it was an unpleast factory job, or a job that required skills like sowing. Women were tasked with staying at home, such a thing is a nightmare to Scout. Later in the novel, she learns to move on and accept at least a part of her fate. But will she really ever become what society at that time expected from women?
noun
dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against women.
One of the first things we learn about Scout is that she does not want to be a girl. It goes hand in hand with the fact that she is a tomboy. She thinks that being called or labled as a female is one of the worst insults there is, and makes a point to avoid anything that could make someone percieve her as a girl. "I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with."(4,17) 2ith the lack of positive female influence in her life, Scout has essentially been living as a boy for as long as she can remember. As this novel is set in the 1930's Scout's seemingly over-the-top interalised misogyny makes sense. The time period is well known for not being progressive. Women at this time largly did not have jobs, and if they did it was an unpleast factory job, or a job that required skills like sowing. Women were tasked with staying at home, such a thing is a nightmare to Scout. Later in the novel, she learns to move on and accept at least a part of her fate. But will she really ever become what society at that time expected from women?
