My misogyny

[Gilgamesh]

Hi, if anyone would like to ask me any questions I'm happy to respond.

Do you even lift?

[Heir Apparent]

Got a couple good questions here ready. If you could elaborate on your upbringing (this is all assuming you aren't a Poe or anything. I like to give the benefit of the doubt first) that'd be good.

Also some details of your beliefs may help too.

I can sympathize with not trusting women since I had a horrendous relationship some years ago that left me a bit scarred, but you know what they say about getting back on the horse after it throws you off.

No innuendo intended.

[Captain Colostomy]

Misogynist is usually an epithet, not a medical diagnosis. Care to elaborate?

[Kereli]

Got a couple good questions here ready. If you could elaborate on your upbringing (this is all assuming you aren't a Poe or anything. I like to give the benefit of the doubt first) that'd be good.

Also some details of your beliefs may help too.

I can sympathize with not trusting women since I had a horrendous relationship some years ago that left me a bit scarred, but you know what they say about getting back on the horse after it throws you off.

No innuendo intended.

Sure. First of all I'm a woman myself. My mother always pushed me to be competitive against everybody, boys and girls, but especially the boys. On the one hand it was quite good to be encouraged to do my best, but I always felt that I was being pushed whether I liked it or not, and that's what I resented. She always told me that whatever a man can do I can do too, even when I couldn't. She never liked it when I dressed in a particularly girly way, and I hated that. I never felt like I was good enough as I was, I always had to strive to be something I wasn't, and I never felt like she really cared about me. When I got married she used to come over our house from time to time and all she could do is criticize me whenever I did anything in the kitchen, saying that the kitchen is no place for me. She never lets me just be myself and she has rarely ever had a good thing to say about me. She has always made me feel like crap for being who I am, and in a nutshell, that's why I came to hate myself to an extent, and women in general. She's a terrible role model and a horrible parent.

[Heir Apparent]

Hmmm, well the first thing that jumps out at me is your mother who seems to think she can just barge in on you whenever she feels like it, or at least that's how I perceive it.

It sounds to me like she is still trying to have a hand in all your doings, even after you've left, which doesn't sound healthy. Have you simply tried telling her that you're just fine on your own and that you don't need her help? Politely, of course.

I should think being on your own would entitle you to be yourself after all.

[Walking Void]

When your mom visits You again, make sure to have a pair of these ready:

[Kereli]

Hmmm, well the first thing that jumps out at me is your mother who seems to think she can just barge in on you whenever she feels like it, or at least that's how I perceive it.

It sounds to me like she is still trying to have a hand in all your doings, even after you've left, which doesn't sound healthy. Have you simply tried telling her that you're just fine on your own and that you don't need her help? Politely, of course.

I should think being on your own would entitle you to be yourself after all.

It's not so much that she barges in, it's more a case of her being so critical. If I so much as make my husband a cup of tea she immediately becomes judgmental, telling me that he can damn well get it himself. It's so over the top. Just the other week I made him a snack when he came from work and she got on her high horse and started an argument which was so stupid, and so embarrassing. If my husband tells me anything remotely negative, or if he makes the slightest criticism or suggestion, she can't help but weigh in, telling him that he should stop being so controlling. My husband really can't stand her and I don't blame him.

[Captain Colostomy]

For fuck sakes, why hasn't your husband told her to fuck off, and not come back until she can keep her opinions to herself??? It appears you wouldn't object?

[Kereli]

For fuck sakes, why hasn't your husband told her to fuck off, and not come back until she can keep her opinions to herself??? It appears you wouldn't object?

It's not easy. I wouldn't mind her giving her opinions, it's just that her opinions always, but always, revolve around equality and I'm sick of it. It's all she ever talks about. She's always trying to prove a point and make him out to be a sexist pig. It's not that she comes round all the time, but when she does she does the same thing.

[Walking Void]

I think You need to stand up to your mother. I did that to my father and He is always intimidated by me.