“While we avoid taking credit for success, women leap at the opportunity to take responsibility for failure. Men tend to externalize the reasons for their failure, putting it off on something or someone else. Not so women, who absorb blame as if they were born to be societys doormats. (Some women like to speak of their willingness to take blame as if it were a form of altruism. It isn't. Women take the blame because they find it scary to confront those who are actually culpable of wrongdoing.)” WomenPatriarchyGender RolesDouble StandardsMale PrivilegeSocietal ConstructsPsychological TraumaCinderella Complex Book:The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence
“(...) psychiatrists today recognize the contortionist's act that was required of women in an age when they were expected to stifle their own healthiest impulses. (...) "To be able to renounce your own achievements without feeling that you were sacrificing requires constant effort. To be lovely and unaggressive, a woman spends a lifetime keeping hostile or resentful impulses down. Even healthy self-assertion is often sacrificed since it may be mistaken by hostility. Therefore, [women] often repress their initiative, give up their aspirations, and unfortunately end up excessively dependent with a deep sense of insecurity and uncertainty about their abilities and their worth.” WomenFeminismOppressionInsecurityPatriarchyGender RolesDouble StandardsMale PrivilegePsychological TraumaCinderella ComplexEmotional Dependency Book:The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence Source: The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence