Matristic
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Matristic / məˈtrɪstɪk / adjective / Hailing women / matristic.com
"This is some strange and icky territory. Like a toddler throwing around their own poo. I poo therefore I am! Or in this case, I ejaculate, and therefore I command respect!"
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 43 / This semen thing is just weird?
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:55 AM
"This is some strange and icky territory. Like a toddler throwing around their own poo. I poo therefore I am! Or in this case, I ejaculate, and therefore I command respect!"
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"No, it’s not just that women need to put on their big girl pants, ‘lean in,’ and build up their AI skills. It’s that technological developments are so often harnessed as weapons against women."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 42 / Women have good reason to be averse to AI
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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January 19, 2026 at 6:10 AM
"No, it’s not just that women need to put on their big girl pants, ‘lean in,’ and build up their AI skills. It’s that technological developments are so often harnessed as weapons against women."
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"I am so delighted lately to see so many more movies and TV shows telling stories that I HAVEN'T heard before"
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 41 / ‘Man leaves family to save world’
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM
"I am so delighted lately to see so many more movies and TV shows telling stories that I HAVEN'T heard before"
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"These problems are not like the weather, they are not just there. They arise from the choices and actions of abusers, criminals, police officers, lawyers, judges, and lawmakers."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 40 / Victims wait and wait for justice
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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January 6, 2026 at 8:16 AM
"These problems are not like the weather, they are not just there. They arise from the choices and actions of abusers, criminals, police officers, lawyers, judges, and lawmakers."
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“The people who designed my power tools apparently thought only of the needs of men. Ditto the people who designed our cities, our car seat belts, most of our medical trials, and so much more.”
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 39 / The world is designed for men
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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December 23, 2025 at 5:08 AM
“The people who designed my power tools apparently thought only of the needs of men. Ditto the people who designed our cities, our car seat belts, most of our medical trials, and so much more.”
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"Imagine if our politicians had TOLD US, twenty years ago, that they were going to stand back and encourage gigantic companies to make fortunes by shoving misogyny, porn, choking, deepfakes, and nudify apps right into the mainstream of our culture."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 38 / Where there’s a will (to protect women), there’s a way
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:18 AM
"Imagine if our politicians had TOLD US, twenty years ago, that they were going to stand back and encourage gigantic companies to make fortunes by shoving misogyny, porn, choking, deepfakes, and nudify apps right into the mainstream of our culture."
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“A comorbidity is a disease or disorder in addition to the main disease or disorder. For plastic surgery, a comorbidity could be anxiety or depression. But what about the main disease or disorder? That would be … looking like yourself?”
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 36 / Your appearance is not a disorder
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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December 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“A comorbidity is a disease or disorder in addition to the main disease or disorder. For plastic surgery, a comorbidity could be anxiety or depression. But what about the main disease or disorder? That would be … looking like yourself?”
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"Of course the museum should not try to re-write history itself. But, in Australia, in the twenty-first century, there was nothing in this prized exhibit to suggest that the curators had even noticed the absence of women."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 35 / Are farm animals STILL more important than women?
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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November 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Of course the museum should not try to re-write history itself. But, in Australia, in the twenty-first century, there was nothing in this prized exhibit to suggest that the curators had even noticed the absence of women."
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“Toxic masculinity” feels like an affront, maybe, arriving against the baseline of our patriarchal traditions where masculinity as not only a good thing, but more or less the highest possible virtue...
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 33 / “Toxic masculinity” is not an insult
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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November 13, 2025 at 4:02 AM
“Toxic masculinity” feels like an affront, maybe, arriving against the baseline of our patriarchal traditions where masculinity as not only a good thing, but more or less the highest possible virtue...
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"The costs, typically, fall on the victims. The perpetrators may even get off free of meaningful consequence, and free of trauma even. The events that injured and traumatised others may have actually been fun for them."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 32 / Money talks, when human rights don’t seem to
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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November 11, 2025 at 8:10 AM
"The costs, typically, fall on the victims. The perpetrators may even get off free of meaningful consequence, and free of trauma even. The events that injured and traumatised others may have actually been fun for them."
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In the Pelicot rape trials, there was a lot of examination of WHAT the men did and HOW they did it, but not so much WHY...
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 31 / Why aren’t we asking WHY men keep harming women?
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In the Pelicot rape trials, there was a lot of examination of WHAT the men did and HOW they did it, but not so much WHY...
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"What Dogan did was vile, but this was not entirely the message that his 44 years on this planet had given him"
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 24 / A rape conviction can come as a shock
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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October 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
"What Dogan did was vile, but this was not entirely the message that his 44 years on this planet had given him"
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"Obviously these shiny new apps can’t involve exploiting the lonely and vulnerable, as they hand over payments, one garment at a time, or one sex act after another, to become more intimate with their imaginary ‘girlfriends’."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 29 / AI ‘girlfriends’ – how marvellous!
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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October 15, 2025 at 9:08 AM
"Obviously these shiny new apps can’t involve exploiting the lonely and vulnerable, as they hand over payments, one garment at a time, or one sex act after another, to become more intimate with their imaginary ‘girlfriends’."
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An alien arriving into our online world might arrive at the understanding that this ‘sex’ thing is a form of violent gladiatorial combat between men and women
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 28 / Sex is supposed to be fun
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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October 15, 2025 at 6:02 AM
An alien arriving into our online world might arrive at the understanding that this ‘sex’ thing is a form of violent gladiatorial combat between men and women
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Why are young South Korean men so extremely angry with South Korean women, even though they appear to enjoy world-leading social domination over them?https://matristic.substack.com/p/one-year-in-misogyny-week-27-an-abundance
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 27 / An abundance of hate
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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October 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Why are young South Korean men so extremely angry with South Korean women, even though they appear to enjoy world-leading social domination over them?https://matristic.substack.com/p/one-year-in-misogyny-week-27-an-abundance
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"Abbot's role as a public punching bag has been so normalised that it almost takes an effort to notice it. Ovenden’s remarks may be objectionable, but can still feel 'trivial', because it is so completely commonplace for her to receive this kind of abuse."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 26 / Callousness may (eventually) harm your career
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:21 AM
"Abbot's role as a public punching bag has been so normalised that it almost takes an effort to notice it. Ovenden’s remarks may be objectionable, but can still feel 'trivial', because it is so completely commonplace for her to receive this kind of abuse."
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"Well, either women are simply worth less than men, or something is wrong here."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 23 / Economic inequality
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September 5, 2025 at 4:41 AM
"Well, either women are simply worth less than men, or something is wrong here."
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"It’s not so much that women are better suited to low paid occupations, it’s that once women start joining an occupation en masse, low wages start to ‘belong’ to that occupation."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 22 / At work, men rule
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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September 4, 2025 at 8:08 AM
"It’s not so much that women are better suited to low paid occupations, it’s that once women start joining an occupation en masse, low wages start to ‘belong’ to that occupation."
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"Do you ever get the feeling that … sometimes … the deal that women get from a relationship, from marriage, from parenthood, is just … not as good as the deal that men get?"
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 21 / Mental overload
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September 4, 2025 at 8:06 AM
"Do you ever get the feeling that … sometimes … the deal that women get from a relationship, from marriage, from parenthood, is just … not as good as the deal that men get?"
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"Sex as something joyful, intimate, mutual, life-affirming, affectionate, warm and funny seems to have no place at all in this carnival of hostility."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 20 / Porn has become disgusting
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
"Sex as something joyful, intimate, mutual, life-affirming, affectionate, warm and funny seems to have no place at all in this carnival of hostility."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 19 / ‘Domestic’ violence is simply violence
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 19 / ‘Domestic’ violence is simply violence
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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August 2, 2025 at 11:59 AM
One Year in Misogyny / Week 19 / ‘Domestic’ violence is simply violence
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 18 / The accountability gap
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 18 / The accountability gap
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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July 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
One Year in Misogyny / Week 18 / The accountability gap
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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"DARVO is now such a commonplace response from prominent figures accused of bad behaviour that we may read it as a signal of guilt, innocence, or anything in between. Some may be sincerely unable to see any problem with their own behaviour."
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One Year in Misogyny / Week 17 / DARVO
Stories of misogyny - unpacked! A year-long project, picking one news story per week.
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July 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
"DARVO is now such a commonplace response from prominent figures accused of bad behaviour that we may read it as a signal of guilt, innocence, or anything in between. Some may be sincerely unable to see any problem with their own behaviour."
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