Well, we are eligible under the constitution to form thoughts, jokes, ideas, and display a certain attitude that may degrade a women. In the same sense, we are allowed to do the same to the other sex. Being a male, I feel that it is only the virtue of sheer bad lack that women are degraded more so than men in the 21st century. According to historic accounts, women were always the weaker of the two sexes, deemed evil, seductive, and tempting, and very often were separated completely from the male populace. Do you remember Pandora of greek mythology? According to the greeks, she was believed to be the first women who opened the box that unleashed all the bad things on the world. According to David Gilmore, the author of the book Misogyny - The Male Malady "Man’s fascination is the product of a certain mixture or balance of emotional states that is as dynamically unstable as it is irresolvable. This jumble of emotion is paralyzed to an extreme and dramatic degree: both desire and repulsion, neither alloyed, for just as man loves and desires the female body, he also fears and distrusts it because woman’s flesh is too desirable, too gratifying. Men especially fear the peremptory power that woman’s body exerts over him, its enormous capacity to provoke feelings so uncontrollable that their frustration promises as much pain as their gratification does pleasure." Here we are actually given a reason why males are justified when they fear or hate women. St. Jerome, a 4th-century Latin father of the Christian church, said: “Woman is the gate of the devil, the path of wickedness, the sting of the serpent, in a word a perilous object." Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century Christian theologian said that woman was “created to be man’s helpmeet, but her unique role is in conception . . . since for other purposes men would be better assisted by other men.†All of these ideas give me a sense a sense of conviction that the only reason degradation is higher for females is because they have historically, always been degraded and deemed weaker. It's not necessarily a new concept of the 21st century. The only thing different about degradation are the new methods we have. Pornography being one; although, pornography is degrading to both males and females since it exists for both.