Definitions
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek μισογυνία (misogunia) and μισογύνης (misogunēs, "woman hater"), from μισέω (miseō, "I hate") + γυνή (gunē, "woman"). (Wiktionary)
- Greek mīsoguniā : mīso-, miso- + gunē, woman; see -gyny. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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.”
Matthew Yglesias » Yglesias Smack Down: Politicians Love Hip-Hop
“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 calls misogyny, 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.”
A friendly suggestion to former McCain campaign staffers. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
“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.”
The gawker issue: Clearly, this type of behavior affects us all
“On top of the obvious misogyny, is it the general insistence on fixed categories?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misogyny’.
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Loanwords
Since English is littered with loanwords, everything could conceivably end up here. But there is a distinct feeling associated with these.. maybe they're young additions to the English language; I ...
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Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
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Sat Vocabulary List
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Words of the Day
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Words That Populate My Mind
This is a collection of words I love, old ones that I love the sound of when I repeat them for years and new ones coined in news articles on up and coming trends and technologies - most of them I k...
aroma, mojo, blithely, fringe, fray, synchronicity, doublespeak, buzzword, thoughtcrime, portmanteau, newspeak, oldspeak and 963 more...
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thricedotted's Words
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for misogyny.
bilby wth? May 8, 2009
chained_bear "'It is my belief, brother, that your misogyny is largely theoretical.'"
--O'Brian, The Truelove, 50 Mar 10, 2008