Whenever someone makes a joke about a wife’s cooking or nagging, or a comment about woman’s style of dress/appearance, or a “my daughter’s not dating til she’s 40” joke, or say chivalry is dead, they’re reinforcing an ideology that women only exist to appease men.
So much of our culture revolves around these tropes. A recent superbowl commercial featuring a father chasing his daughter around on a date to “protect” her reduces her to just being an object without will or agency.
These little micro aggressions just teach and instill a sense of worthlessness. We need to stop them.
just write 