But would you be willing to say outright that all those women who enjoy being the M or appreciate a work of fiction like fifty shades of grey hold misogynistic beliefs?
Well, it depends on what defines as misogyny.
There are many feminist women who are masochists.
I don't think by and large people who feel this way hold overty sexist beliefs, though I'm sure that some of them do.
More, most people internalize racist and sexist belief that they don't even realize. Women, when being asked to do a test, and fill out their gender, score lower statistically on math and science, just from filling out a question about their gender.
Race and gender both play a role it how people perceive themselves, based upon society. And influences how they score on academic tests, just being remembering it.
If this is true of education, I'm sure that it's true to some degree of sexuality and an influence or sadistic or masochistic feelings. I don't think I would say that women who are masochists "hold misogynistic beliefs". But I would say that everyone in society has internalized misogynistic beliefs, including even the most radical of feminists.
I find personally distasteful that they must have internalized some sort of "bad" influence,
Well, I think that wanting to rape someone is more than personally distasteful. That rape is bad isn't a personal feeling. It's a horrible and awful violence. And rape is a widespread problem.
And I think that these desires must come from somewhere. And since it's a part of a social trend, I don't think it can be explained by poor people with injuries causing them problems in being able to feel empathy.
that they couldn't have made that choice of their own free will. Would you be willing to say that a woman could decide she liked being in bondage exclusively of her own free will?
It depends on your idea of what free will is.
If free will means indeterminism and that the mind is separate from cause and effect. Then no, I don't think that's scientifically sound. Free will doesn't exist, for anyone or anything that exists in this universe. At the quantum level, there is some probability rather than certainty. But the vast majority of everything is deterministic. And probabilistic wouldn't mean that free will exists, it would mean that behavior would be caused by random chance and probability rather than cause and effect, not free will.
We are all subject to the results of cause and effect. We are all here and doing exactly what we're doing now because of trillions and trillions of causes and effects. And something that is only probabilistic rather than deterministic, only at the tiniest level that doesn't fit with the rest of physics which is completely cause and effect.
The kind of "free will" that personal choice is more important to making decisions than cause and effect simply doesn't make sense with the laws of physics. People make choice, but people's choices and feelings come from somewhere and people don't have unlimited choices.
As for the free will meaning that they simply had a choice and no one was forcing them to do anything. Of course it was their choice, in some cultures women have had no free will to choose at all, as their lives were decided by their families and society. But that free will doesn't change the fact that everyone is influenced and become who they are because of things and people around them that influence them and change what choices they have.
In the case of seeing trends like fat women being unhappy with their bodies, or a tendency for men to be seen as dominant, or black women being unhappy with their bodies, free will isn't the only thing making this happy. Society is teaching people things. And not all of those things are healthy.
It doesn't mean everyone who feels things like this is bad. It means there's something wrong in society. And yes, there's something wrong with women and people of colour not liking themselves.