If I were born four hundred years ago, I’m pretty certain I would have been burnt at the stake for being a witch. Being told to “shhh” and how “scary” I looked by a man on Mayday morning at Magdalen Bridge reminded me of this fact. I forgot how ‘scary’ a woman with an opinion could be.
TW: Mentions of sexual violence
"Rather than teaching men that to assault is wrong, society teaches women to do all they can to avoid it."
Flora Dyson unpacks the phenomenon of internalised misogyny and questions how we can tackle it.
