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To understand misogyny you must understand the male psyche.
Men are incomplete humans.
Males across the animal species are an aberration. They exist for the sole purpose of spreading their genes to female recipients. They have no other drive than to seek, covet, and possess women, and it informs their psychology.
Human males are deeply disturbed by their insatiable impulse to obtain women. Because of this, women have much power over his mind. He is all but a slave to his lust for and reliance on women. The male views this as a great injustice, that women have it “too good” for being the center of his universe.
He copes with his inferiority and obsession by cutting women down. From his perspective, he is correcting a great injustice. For disagreeable women, the offense is especially egregious.
The male is incapable of decentering women from his mind, so in order to “balance” the power dynamics, he decides women must make themselves perfectly consumable and available.
It’s like a parasite becoming self aware. The flea, realizing it’s entirely dependent on the dog it feeds on, how the dog holds all the power over its existence, resents the dog. To the flea, the only ‘good’ dog is one that sits idly and lets it feed, never bothering to scratch or shake.
Anything women do that remind men that they are human, that they don’t exist just to be consumed, frustrates and enrages him. It could be anything, big or small, but the male is always acutely aware of his fear over losing power over you and access to you.
Even if you are perfectly good, you’ll never escape misogyny. The parasite hates its host no matter how nicely and accommodating it behaves, because by virtue of being needed, you threaten the parasite’s (false) idea of being independent, whole, complete.
But yes, egregious reminders that you don’t exist in service of men makes them especially angry.