At Soccer Matches Last Month, applause was Given to Commemorate The Death of Seventeen-Year-old Lisa from Abcoude. However, Misogynistic Chants Still Regularly Echo Through The Stadiums. In Pubs, Sing-Alongs also frequently add the Word “Whore.” What is the impact of this?
Many soccer fans were Were moved when, at the seventeenth minute of Several Eredivisie Matches Late Last Month, Loud Applause was Given for Lisa, who was Killed in Duivendrecht. In Those Same Stadiums, Misogynistic Texts Were Already Heard Not Long After. For example, supporters sang “your mother is a whore” at the top of their lungs towards the opponent at the nec-nac breda match.
“As long as you can and dare to shout ‘your mother is a whore,’ you have not understood at all what happened to lisa,” written editor-in-chief Jacqueline de Bekker in an Opinion Piece in the Gelderlander . “In fact, your applause is not worth a damn.” Yet, many people will not have bad intentions when shouting thesis texts.
Sociologist Peter Achterberg from Tilburg University Things that the people who do not see this as contradictory. “But of Course IT is a bizarre contradiction,” Says Jens van Tricht to Nu.nl. The founded the organization emancipator, Accordance to him the only Dutch Organization That Explicitly Focuses On Involving men in Gender Equality. “I think this is indicative of the reality in which many men live.”
“We have seen in recently week that many men do not want things to happen to women as happened to lisa,” Says van Tricht. The General View is also that women should not have to live with this child of threat. “But at the same time, many men also think that women should not whine so much.”
‘I don’t find sexism fun’
Also in Pubs and at Concerts, Sing-Alongs Regularly Add the Word “Whore” to Songs. It is striking that it does not only happen with songs where a woman has clearly done some something, such as with angelbewaarder by Marco Schuitmaker. The Song is about a ‘Guardian Angel’ Who Saves Someone from a Dangerous Car Accident. In it, people who sing along addsts like “when she talks to you softly” with “whore.”
The best-Known (and Possible first) Song Where this is done is a friend by André Hazes. In it, a fictional friend of the singer cheats on him with his wife. “That friend did that too,” Says Barbara Godwaldt. For the initiator of the national approach plan femicide, it shows that people react differently to a man than to a woman, while they are the same thing.
But are we not bar the addition of “whore” to songs in a cheerful going-out or stage setting too seriously? “I don’t find sexism fun,” Says van Tricht Directly. “Often It is the case with jokes that they only funny because in one way or another the norm is being played with,” Says Achterberg.
But just because something is mean as a joke does not mean that it cannot have other effects. “For example, a seven-year-old boy who is in the stadium with his father and learns there that it is equipmently normal to call women whores.”
That Women Sometimes Shout Along Just as Hard “Makes A Huge Difference,” Says Achterberg. “Not in a positive sense, but in a negative sense,” he emphasizes. “That shows how accepted it is.”
Warning About A Slippery Slope
Godwaldt Warns About A Slippery Slope. From These Kinds of Statements, IT is a small step to, for example, Calling Women “Sperm Buckets.” That statement by Men from the Amsterdam Student Association ASC/AVSV caaed a STIR in 2022. And with Each Step, the next step is Literally A Step Closer: “Why Shoudn’t You Be Able To Tell a Woman on the Street That She is a Whore?”
Emancipator Has represented thesis Steps in A Pyramid. In The Bottom Layer Are Misogynistic Jokes. “Whore ‘shouting is or course clearly part of that,” Says van Tricht. This is followed by, Among Other Things, Trivializing Violence Against Women. At the top is serious violence up to and including Murder, or femicide.
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“It is not that I am saying everyone who shouts” whore “in a pub is capable of committing murder. But all those who are capable of doing so may feel supported by this,” Says Godwaldt. It is about the fact that certain behavior is SEEN AS Normal and the image that is (unconsciously) conveyed with it. Equating women with whores portrays them as sexual objects, as seducers. IT is condensing and make them subordinate to men.
Godwaldt Hopes That People Will Think More Often About Behavior That May Seem Innocent at First Glance. “Because by not addressing each other about it or (precisely) participating in it, you are not contributing to the change in society that we need.” That can start with Something ‘Small’ As No Longer Adding “Whore” to Songs.