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Re: no kiddin! (long)
Posted By: Kwirq, on host 24.66.226.149
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999, at 17:53:36
In Reply To: Re: no kiddin! (long) posted by Jimmy on Monday, July 19, 1999, at 12:03:42:

> 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.
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> Misogyny and feminism are not the same thing.

There isn't, as far as I know, any word in the English language for man-hatred. The closest is misanthropy, which is just people-hatred. Doesn't this seem sexist? If feminism is seperate from man-hatred--and these days it almost seems like the same thing as saying white sepremacism is separate from racism (1)--why isn't there a good word for man-hatred?

[Vroomfondel voice:]"We DEMAND a word for the hatred of our gender!"

So, for any of our lingually-oriented posters, what WOULD the correct word be, created from the same form as "misogyny"?

Kw"this don't work too well with a one-syllable moniker"irq

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(1) With apologies to all the feminists out there who don't carry it to the point of counter-sexism