"Philosophy and literature are made by misogynists." Zalina Marshenkulova on why even educated people can be sexists

Academic status and erudition do not speak about the mental abilities of a person

There is a big difference between the words "smart" and "educated". In fact, a PhD degree does not provide any guarantee that people know or understand more.

On the contrary, often in the academic environment there is even more sexism, chauvinism and all sorts of snobbery. People begin to separate themselves from a certain cattle. As a result, many prejudices are formed. For example, about the fact that with the advent of a child, a woman becomes a stupid “mother”. Allegedly, her hormones capture her, and she loses her last brain.

In the fact that in the academic environment flourishes sexism, there is no paradox. The philosophy taught at the university was created by misogynist men at a time when women were not considered complete. Men have written a hell of a lot of fiction about it.

And in world literature, a man is looking for the meaning of life, and a woman is looking for a man.

The university environment absorbed all this. Although women philosophers and women theologians have existed since the Middle Ages, we know almost nothing about them. Their books are published only by feminist publishers.

As a result, we see an average, not even an old professor who thinks that a woman is an ornament of the team and flutters like a butterfly over his philosophical works. Or sincerely believesthat women exist to please a man and clean up after him.

There is no need for a book, there must be an internal guide

This attitude can be seen in podcast «pupils». In the children's intellectual camp, people with higher education taught, some of them had several degrees. It is difficult to imagine a crowd more intelligent. And these same people slept with 13-14-year-old students, in fact, their subordinates, and really did not understand what the problem was. Maybe they read books about romance with 14-16-year-old girls. So why shouldn't a grown man of 30 hook up with Juliet? From their position, the situation is not even devoid of romantic flair. It doesn't occur to them that the age difference is monstrous.

And then the mutual responsibility begins, which is characteristic of most associations. But you you will not the professor you work with or who you are taking an exam to accuse of violence or harassment. After all, as soon as you do this, most likely, you will have problems.

The system where you can fuck little girls is trying to justify itself.

Another example is university professors and lecturers who married their 18- to 19-year-old female students three times. I see in this only the patriarchal desire of a man subdue a woman and control her. Whatever such people say about love, I am convinced that hierarchical relationships are not happy. A woman who was broken on the knee in a relationship sooner or later grows up and realizes that her identity was actually stolen from her. So for me, the big question is why people who claim to be intellectuals do not understand the simple thing that happiness is impossible outside of equal partnerships.

To understand this, words and knowledge are not enough, a feeling must appear. Maybe you could call it emotional intelligence. Clever books do not help its origin, it takes time to learn to feel what can and cannot be done.

This feeling is born inside

When I was a teenager, in my city they were considered cool couples, for example, a 14-year-old girl and a 30-year-old coach. And it seemed to me that such a relationship is simply monstrous. At the same time, I could not formulate what was wrong with them.

There was only an emotional sensation of perversion, as if I had soiled my hands in dirt.

I had no words and feminstallations, only the feeling that it is impossible to do so. But it was only with me, and others approved of such a relationship. My friend from a parallel class boasted of everything that she was dating an adult man. I also told the leader of the circle where we went together. I was waiting for a forty-year-old woman to answer this. She said, "Very cool."

In the village, which was not at all an academic environment, no one knew that it was impossible to sleep with 14-year-old girls. But even in the intellectual community they did not know. It turns out that there is no difference between the conditional redneck environment and elite Moscow schools. They live in power patriarchal attitudes. But now more and more they say why you should not enter into a hierarchical relationship with a subordinate or student. There is hope that people will at least think about what they are doing.

School should teach critical thinking

At school, in labor lessons, girls were taught to cook, and then carry food to the boys. I was 14 and didn't understand why I had to cook if I didn't want to. In response, they told me that I was an abnormal woman and would never marry. Well, my husband has been cooking for me all 15 years of marriage. But that's not the point. I was the only one of the huge number of girls who asked questions.

This is what should be taught in schools. Not meaningless knowledge that is absolutely unnecessary, not sexist literature and philosophy. School should teach critical thinking and the ability to ask questions.

And in general, all: both girls and boys. So that the children ask: “Who said that I should obey the peasant? Who came up with all these rules?

All this husk crumbles when you just ask.

But, unfortunately, academic education is not like that. It is completely in the power of the authorities. No one turns their heads and asks questions like: “Are you sure you can have sex with a teenager?” or “Is my uncle definitely in love with me or just wants sex from me?”

This is what needs to be taught. Unfortunately, this is not enough in schools, and we have what we have.