Social Dynamics: Personality Profiles, Discrimination, and Feminist History

Violent Personalities and Social Marginalization

Types of Violent Personality Profiles

These profiles often exhibit behaviors linked to low frustration tolerance or deep-seated insecurity:

1. Overprotection: Individuals with a very low frustration level who have never heard a definitive "no" and easily become overwhelmed. When faced with life's challenges, they retreat quickly, unwilling to make any effort or sacrifice.
2. Complex of Inferiority or Insecurity: People who react violently to any perceived threat to their "weak ego."
3. Maltreatment: Individuals who feel battered by life and believe that society owes them a debt. They act with deep resentment, often because they have never known love or affection. This type is a source of potential violence and marginalization.
4. Sadistic or Destructive Profile: Individuals who seek to destroy everything they desire. They often exhibit a self-destructive tendency.

Persistent Forms of Discrimination

Discrimination manifests in various societal structures:

• Work: Women, performing the same job as men, are often paid less (e.g., a 13% wage gap).
• Stereotype: A simplistic, superficial, and rigid idea applied to a person or group.
• Advertising: Based on a consumer society where consumption, not the person, is paramount. Advertising frequently utilizes stereotypes.
• Language: An expression of our world that often reflects existing marginalization and power structures.
• Violence: While not new, cases are increasing, and violence has sometimes become normalized as news or entertainment.
• Body: Discrimination related to physical appearance or ability.

Feminism: The Fight for Social Equality

Feminism addresses discrimination against women. While physical differences exist, the movement asserts that men and women are socially equal.

Historical Objectives of Feminism

• Tackling inequality of rights, responsibilities, and opportunities.
• Fighting against prejudice.
• Developing a new view of history that includes women's contributions.

The Origins of the Movement

Feminism began in the eighteenth century during the French Enlightenment. The core motivations were Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity (Dignity). One of the first prominent defenders of feminism was a man, Baron de Condorcet.

Olympe de Gouges fought against slavery and inequality. She famously wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen. Her work highlighted the misunderstanding regarding women's rights at the time.

The nineteenth century saw the rise of the labor movement, which quickly became entangled in misunderstandings regarding gender roles. During this period, Flora Tristan emerged as a key defender of women's rights.

Suffrage and the Fight for Political Power

In the nineteenth century, European democracies appeared. However, in these systems, only men over 30 who owned property could vote. These democracies were established outside the participation of women.

A group of women, known as the Suffragettes, argued that the primary goal must be securing the vote in order to gain political power.

In the twentieth century, suffragists successfully achieved the female vote. While the female vote was generally secured around 1914 in many countries, it was achieved in Spain in 1931, championed by Clara Campoamor.

In the 1960s and 1970s, the feminist movement resurged, focusing on the struggle for real equality beyond just legal rights.