> While were on the topic, here's what gets my goat (and, no, Iss, I'm not going to say "goat thieves" :-}): people who speak of misogynism as a bad thing and feminism as a good thing practically in the same breath. Our campus newspaper carried an open letter from one of the professors last year that did that. One cannot, by definition, be "good" and the other "bad;" they're either both good or both bad, since they're the same bloody thing!
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Okay, I'll have to disagree with that. Misogyny is, quite simply, a hatred of women. Feminism, on the other hand, is _not_ a hatred of men. Feminism is the theory of equality of the sexes, or activity in support of women's rights. Now, you may have some women who practice feminism and who hate men, but those are two separate issues.

Misogyny and feminism are not the same thing.