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In such an environment, woman is treated either as a saint or a prostitute. Or she is perceived as Cassandra, Circe, Medea or Phaedra. Or she can be a doomsayer, seductress, avenger or committer of incest. It is the simplest when she is portrayed as a witch on a broomstick instead of a vacuum cleaner which suits her better than being beside a typewriter or computer keyboard. Vesna Kesić states that the status of women in totalitarian Yugoslavia and nationalistic Croatia was and remains the same because they were and they are, if only in jargon, defined by a rather vulgar gynaecological term. Otto Weininger, a prominent Viennese who lived at the turn of the 20th century, fiercely wanted, at any cost, to demonstrate woman’s worthlessness compared to man’s. Weininger subscribed to this position at every moment with the strength of a merciless Manichean.
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