Each category has a unique blend of sexuality, autonomy and vulnerability, and acts more as a sliding-scale axis than strictly defined categories. My own bitchiness is just one of the many categories that deviant women can fall into - others include, but aren’t limited to, sluts, prudes and attention-whores. When I refused, I became just a bitch to them. By middle school, I gravitated away from nearly all of my male friends, and the final few had only seemed to stick around to practice their prepubescent flirting. Friendly scraped knees on the blacktop and harmless playground taunts turned into gendered insults and the precursors of taught objectification. As a young girl, only aged around 10 or 11, I already had a steady stream of this beginner’s misogyny directed my way. From the very beginning, we are taught by our environment to ostracize deviant girls, even if it just starts as refusing to invite a girl who strays away from gender norms to an elementary school sleepover. The link between this social education and misogyny is undeniable - girls are indoctrinated into patriarchy as early as possible.
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Girls, including my younger self, are taught how to center male attention, idolize emaciated bodies and enter competitions with any other girl in our vicinity. Rather depressingly, a large portion of girlhood is dedicated to avoiding the perils of deviousness. So at its very heart, America hates its women - especially women who dabble in deviancy. Additionally, any identity or behavior not approved by the homogeneity of power in the United States is at risk of deviancy. Essentially, having a personality and body that is anything other than submissive, small and docile holds an innate unruliness per the ideals held by the patriarchy. Most often, deviancy in women is prescribed as a result of sexuality, emotionality, egoism, autonomy and demanding personhood. By definition, “gender deviance” is any stray away from gendered and sexual social norms.
Deviancy is not one-size-fits-all instead, a woman can stray away from normality in a plethora of unique ways. Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault and violent languageĭeviant women are a natural byproduct of a patriarchal society.
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