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8 May 2009 – Contrast misandry . ... hip hop culture that traffics in misogyny is likesaying that John Gotti was not a part of ... “I keep seeing people throw around the termmisogyny with respect to ... These user-created lists contain the word 'misogyny'. ...angst, anodyne, anomie, ape, apprehensive, aquiline and 310 more.
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Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Hatred of women.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Hatred of women.
Wiktionary
- n. hatred or contempt for women
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Hatred of women. Contrast misandry.
WordNet 3.0
- n. hatred of women
Etymologies
- Greek mīsoguniā : mīso-, miso- + gunē, woman; see -gyny.
Examples
“To say as Howard has that Timbaland and Simmons are part not part of the hip hop culture that traffics in misogyny is like saying that John Gotti was not a part of the mafia culture that trafficked in heroin.”
“I keep seeing people throw around the term misogyny with respect to Hillary, but I've seen no one define how the treatment of Hillary is at all different from the crap EVERY candidate for President has to deal with?”
“To call it misogyny is to put your lack of thinking and writing skills on display.”
“Hey, the term misogyny is not gender or sex-specific, and many straight men dislike women.”
“He examines six areas of Shakespeare's works (what he callsmisogyny, effemiphobia, machismo, elitism and mobocracy, racialism and intelligent design), proposing that cases from each, "admittedly without conclusive proof ... may be the result of his personal convictions and experiences," as well as (in addition to) the cultural zeitgeist of his time.”
“Interestingly, a counter-taboo has emerged as, for the US liberal, it has become inextricable from the abhorrence through which that conservative misogyny is itself judged as morally obscene.”
“And just so you know, misogyny is greatly disdained here.”
“The catastrophe of misogyny is foremost the loss of our collective sense of humanity - our ability to see ourselves reflected in each other.”
“As MontesIreland pointed out in the comments to my letter,misogyny is pretty STRANGE behavior.”
“On top of the obvious misogyny, is it the general insistence on fixed categories?”
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‘misogyny’ has been looked up 2432 times, loved by 2 people, added to 40 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a
Scrabble score of 17.
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 50 Mar 10, 2008