The goal of misogyny is to reduce women *only* to gendered roles, actions, and meanings. Any pretensions to humanity in women, or any expressions of interiority—like, say, a love of music—must be stamped out and replaced with something pertaining to sex or childbearing.
What an asshole!
Finding new music is as sublime as can be.
Shitting on that, especially in a blatant sexist way, is the opposite. Women cannot like music newly discovered? GTFOH
The thing I take from this is. Women possess so much more intelligence than the Men who say stuff like this. They also know this and it scares the pants off of them.
Yeah, that's why dressing up in skirts & make-up is equated with femaleness. The female is defined by these cultural things & women have no existence outside of male-defined "womanly garments" (& girlish/flirtatious/sexualized behavior). A man who wears these garments also claims this "girly-ness."
Plus the stomping out of any creative thought in general. "Appreciating creative endeavors? That's stupid because I can't comprehend anything beyond 'brand good!'" And it's just so sad to see.
Usually this isn’t so blatant: “Why are you listening to music instead of giving birth?” Usually, the tactic is to repurpose women’s humanity *toward* sex of children: “Musician chicks are hot” or “Play Mozart at your pregnant belly, not because you like it but because it’s good for the child.”
At a certain point it’s just trolling. No person no matter how misogynistic can really believe these things, surely? I have to believe that for my own sanity.
It’s amazing that he thinks of it as an insult. I’ve never wanted kids a day in my life, he might has well have said “sounds like something a person without a Komodo dragon would say.” Like, it is not a goal!
Removal of independent joy or enjoyment of life is the goal. Liking anything that doesn't reference them is co-opted & corrupted to be about them.
Music, art, any independent thought or creative action is viewed only as an extension of their role in your existence. Literally sucks the joy from life.
When I used to get into it with choads on Facebook, I got into it with this one guy who was trying to knock on Sarah Silverman for being "childless and unmarried" at her age when he was same age and childless and unmarried, so I tried to force him to explain the difference, and he just spiraled.
This obsession with dehumanizing women actually makes every human experience, *including* sex and having children, worse. Like, this idiot has no idea how much better sex is when you're having it with someone you treat as a fully autonomous human being and not just a thing you masturbate with.